The NYPD has stepped up security around the United Nations, various diplomatic missions and other sensitive sites throughout the city amid increased violence in Gaza, a department spokesman said Thursday.

There were no specific threats, but the security measures were put in place as a precaution as violence mounts in the Mideast, the spokesman said.

The increased security presence comes as Palestinian terrorists barraged Israel with hundreds of rockets, killing three people as Israel pressed a punishing campaign of airstrikes on Hamas terror targets across the Gaza Strip.

(AP)