more than 20 people have been killed including the wife and infant son of hamas military chief mohamed daiffuted reports that the leader was also killed in that strike on gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the force would continue until the rocket fire ends. focusing on ben gurion airport on thursday, warning international flights divert. >>> we're joined by al jazeera correspondent nick schifrin in jerusalem. targeting ben gurian airport, to stay away. do you think they have the capacity to do that or is this as it was in the past an empty threat? >> well, we've seen rockets land very close to the airport in the past, sheila and the airport has been evacuated before, and this led the faa to ban flights for about a day. they certainly have the range on those rockets. they don't really have the capacity to aim at the airport though. none of the rockets have the technology that would allow them to actually know exactly where they're going to do but it was part of new alanguage delivered with free threats, not only at the airport but also anyone here in jerm, gathering at sta

followed an air strike on wed that hamas claimed had failed to kill its top military commander mohamed daif. that maybe misinformation to improve the group's morale. meanwhile. >> there's nine children who have-nine more children who have been killed. unfortunately. this brings our total to 469 kids as of this morning. >> israel has also called up 10,000 reservists as hamas continued to fire rockets and mortar shells at israeli targets, wounding one man who was helping children into a shelter. for more i'm joined from washington, d.c. by hussein ibbish. hussein, always glad to have you. >> good to be here antonio. i think it's a serious blow and that's assuming their most senior commander wasn't killed. that's not entirely clear. israelis insist he may have been. let's go under the assumption he wasn't killed but his wife and child were killed which is certainly beyond doubt and that these two very senior and one slightly junior commanders in rafah were actually killed. it's a very serious blow to hamas, it's the most serious blow since the beginning of june. it also dovetails to the fact t