Israeli airstrikes have hit a series of targets across Gaza City, after one killed the commander of Hamas' military wing.
The group said the assassination had "opened the gates of hell".
Two of its training facilities were among the targets of the bombings and an Israeli military spokesman said the attacks could trigger days of fighting.
Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai told Channel 2 TV: "The days we face in the south will, in my estimation, prove protracted. The homefront must brace itself resiliently."
Hamas said Ahmed al Jaabari, who ran the organisation's armed wing, the Izz el Deen al Qassam, died along with a passenger after their car was hit by an Israeli missile.
Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence service confirmed it had carried out the attack, saying it had killed Jaabri because of his "decade-long terrorist activity". He has long topped Israel's most-wanted list.
It marks a dramatic resumption of Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian militant leaders.
Jaabari becomes the most senior Hamas official to be killed since an Israeli invasion of Gaza four years ago.
Witnesses said Jaabari was travelling in a vehicle in Gaza City when the car exploded.
Crowds of people and security personnel rushed to the scene of the strike, trying to put out the fire that had engulfed the car and left it a charred shell.
Hamas police cordoned off the area around a hospital where at least one body from the strike was taken. It was draped in a white sheet, with a burned leg poking out.
Israeli officials had said in recent days that they were considering assassinating top Hamas officials following a wave of heavy rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, triggering Israeli airstrikes.
Hamas police said three other airstrikes hit other targets in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.
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