Gaza conflict: Israeli boy's death 'will intensify ops'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said military operations will "intensify" after an Israeli boy was killed by fire from Gaza, the BBC reported.

The four-year-old died in a mortar attack on a southern Israeli village near the Gaza border.

Meanwhile Israeli air strikes have continued, killing at least four people on Friday, Palestinian officials say.

More than 2,090 Palestinians - mostly civilians - and 67 Israelis have been killed in recent weeks.

Most of the dead on the Israeli side have been soldiers. A Thai national in the country was also killed by rocket fire early on in the six-week-old conflict.

Mr Netanyahu's spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, quoted him on Twitter as saying Hamas would "pay a heavy price" for the boy's death.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security service would "intensify" operations against Hamas until the goal of Israel's Operation Protective Edge campaign was achieved, he added.

On Thursday, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas leaders.

Israeli officials say more than 80 rockets were fired from Gaza on Friday.

One strike hit a synagogue in the coastal town of Ashdod, damaging the building and lightly wounding three civilians.

Israeli says it carried out about 30 air strikes on Friday. In one evening raid, a house was destroyed in Gaza City, wounding more than 40 people - some seriously.