on wednesday there was deadly violence in the city of nablus in the occupied west bank after israeli raids there. a general strike has now been called across the palestinian territories. we ll go into what happened in nablus in a moment. but first, let me take you to gaza where the united nations middle east envoy tor wennesland has arrived. he s meeting leaders from the hamas militant group who control gaza. earlier, rockets were fired into israel by militants in gaza in retaliation for israeli raids. israel returned fire this was gaza at dawn you can see an israeli air strike hitting a building. the bbc s yolande knell has more. we saw this exchange of fire around dawn this morning. six rockets fired by palestinian militant groups in gaza who had threatened a retaliation after what happened in nablus, and then five of those intercepted by israel s iron dome missile defence system. one of them came down in an open area, and very quickly afterwards, the israeli military