Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil denounced Israel's attacks on the Palestinian territory during his visit Friday to the Gaza Strip.<br/> <br />He said Cairo would try to secure a ceasefire after two days of relentless attacks by Israeli warplanes determined to end militant rocket fire at Israel.<br/> <br />Israel said it would hold fire during Kandil's visit if Hamas did too.<br/> <br />But rockets fired from Gaza hit several sites in southern Israel and the Israeli air force responded with an attack on the house of Hamas's commander for southern Gaza.<br/> <br />Medics said it killed two people, one of them a child, raising the Palestinian death toll since Wednesday to 21 and the number of Palestinian children killed to 7.<br/> <br />Three Israelis were killed by a rocket on Thursday.<br/> <br />Meanwhile, firefighters extinguish flames at the Interior Ministry in Gaza following an Israeli hit.<br/> <br />In another part of Gaza City, residents picked through the debris of a mosque, after the building was damaged in another Israeli strike.<br/> <br />Broken lights and burnt Qurans littered the building.<br/> <br />The latest upsurge in the long-running conflict came on Wednesday when Israel killed Hamas' military mastermind, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, in a precision air strike on his car.<br/> <br />Israel then began shelling the coastal enclave from land, air and sea and have threatened an invasion of ground troops.
