Israel bombs Gaza

Israel said the 30 missiles fired at the Palestinian territory on Saturday were in response to rocket fire into southern Israel [AFP]

The raids, meant to target Hamas security forces, left an as yet unknown number of women and children dead or injured [AFP]

Police stations and the former offices of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, were among the sites hit [AFP]

Hamas's police headquarters in Gaza City was left devastated [AFP]

Other missiles struck the southern town of Rafah, near Gaza's border with Egypt, and Beit Lahia in the north [GALLO/GETTY]

Israeli anti-war activists had demonstrated in Tel Aviv a day earlier, calling on their government to agree a new ceasefire with Hamas [AFP]