Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli tanks hit a Hamas position in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was allegedly launched on southern Israel from the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli regime’s army said on Friday.
A military statement said its overnight strike had targeted “terrorist infrastructure” in the north of the strip.
A spokesman for Gaza’s emergency services said nobody was wounded.
An Israeli military spokeswoman claimed that the tank fire had been in response to the rocket launched from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, which triggered warning sirens in southern Israel, but caused no damage.
The regime’s military said it was the first rocket fired at Israel from Gaza this year.
Israel launched a war on Gaza last summer with the stated aim of stamping out rocket fire.
The 50-day conflict killed 2,140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.
In December, Israeli warplanes struck the strip for the first time since an August 26 ceasefire went into effect, after a rocket hit the regime. There were no casualties on either side.
Sirens wailed warning of incoming rockets in Sderot and other Israeli-held areas on the boundary with Gaza on Thursday evening.
Residents said they heard sounds of explosions and soldiers searched for rocket fragments into the night.
