Gaza City: The Israeli air force carried out a sortie in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, sources on both sides said, hours after rockets from the enclave hit southern Israel.
Palestinian medics and security sources said the strike targeted a Hamas security site south of Gaza City. They said the attack resulted in no injuries.
A statement from the Israeli army said its “aircraft targeted a terror activity site in the northern Gaza Strip. A direct hit was confirmed.”
“The site was targeted in response to the rocket fire at southern Israel,” the military said.
On Wednesday, fighters in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into southern Israel, causing no casualties or damage.
Early in the morning, Israeli aircraft struck what a military statement called “a terror activity site in the northern Gaza Strip.”
The raid came in response to rocket fire on Tuesday night which exploded near a home in southern Israel, causing property damage, police said, after a two-day lull in cross-border violence.
On Sunday, five rockets or mortar rounds hit southern Israel, part of a wave of tit-for-tat exchanges beginning on October 7 when an air strike targeted two Salafists in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, killing one and critically wounding the other.
Five children and three adults were also wounded in the strike, prompting a rare armed response from Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, who fired a barrage of rockets at Israel.
