 Hamas fired rockets into Israel on Oct. 10 after warning citizens of the southern port city of Ashkelon to evacuate. Earlier in the day Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Yubayda told residents to leave the area by 5 p.m. Without giving any further details, Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with the fiercest airstrikes in its 75-year conflict with the Palestinians, raising whole districts to dust despite a threat from Hamas militants to execute a captive for each home hit across the barrier. While surrounding the Strip, Israeli soldiers were collecting the last of the dead, for days after Hamas gunmen rampaged through towns in by far the deadliest attack in Israel's history.