Israelis take cover as three die in rocket attack - in pictures

Israeli women in shock at the scene of a missile hit on an apartment in the town of Kiryat Malachai Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

Israelis run for cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets in Ashdod Photograph: Amir Cohen/REUTERS

A women takes cover as sirens go off in Kiryat Malachi Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

Women and children take cover during a rocket attack from Gaza Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

Israelis take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images

The funeral for Aharon Smaja, 49, one of the three people who died in the rocket attack Photograph: Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images

Two Israeli women embrace each other next to a bomb shelter Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA

An injured Israeli baby is held by a security officer inside an ambulance in Kiryat Malachi Photograph: Stringer/REUTERS

Israelis react and seek cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets Photograph: Nir Elias/REUTERS

An Israeli with his two sons as they pray under a protective area during a missile alert Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

A soldier throws a bloodstained table from an apartment building hit by a rocket Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP

Security personnel take cover in Kiryat Malachi southern Israel Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP