'It's Like Living In The Blitz': Israeli Ambassador To The UK Describes Life For Civilians Under Bombardment From Hamas Rockets -- Daily Mail
* More than 110 Palestinians and three Israelis dead since Operation Pillar of Defence began last Wednesday
* Security guard stabbed at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv earlier today
* Hamas health ministry officials: A father and his two sons - thought to be aged two and four - were killed overnight
* Today 29 rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel - 3 managed to get through Iron Dome interception system
* U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due in Israel for crisis talks
* In Cairo U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire
Israeli civilians are enduring their own terrifying version of the Blitz, according to the Israeli ambassador to the UK.
As explosions continued to terrorise both Palestinians and Israelis for a seventh day running, Daniel Taub compared the Hamas rocket attacks to Nazi Germany bombing raids on Britain during the Second World War.
He declared that just as Hitler terrorised the people of Britain with air attacks 'over one million Israelis have been forced to live under similar conditions, seeking refuge in bomb shelters as a result of thousands of Hamas rocket and mortar attacks.'
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