GAZA CITY: Israel staged air raids in Gaza overnight, wounding 17 people, Palestinian medics said Tuesday, after militants fired dozens of mortars over the weekend into southern Israel.
Palestinian medical sources said the victims mainly suffered light injuries and said two women and seven children were among those hurt.
An Israeli military spokesman said aircraft attacked a total of six targets.
“They were two terror tunnels, two arms manufacturing facilities and two other sites,” a spokesman told AFP, adding that the tunnels were intended for staging attacks under the border fence into Israel.
He said that the raids were in response to a wave of 56 rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel since Saturday.
Another tunnel was hit in a single and separate attack early Monday evening, the military said.
Palestinian witnesses said that among targets in the north and centre of the strip were a police post of Hamas, which rules Gaza, and a training facility of its military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which earlier offered to stop cross-border fire into Israel if the Israelis halted attacks on Gaza.
A factory producing construction materials and a metal workshop were also hit, while in southern Gaza there were at least three strikes in the vicinity of Khan Younis town, witnesses said.
One targeted a group of fleeing activists, one a building belonging to the town council and another an empty plot, they said, adding that no casualties were recorded.
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Palestinian medical sources said the victims mainly suffered light injuries and said two women and seven children were among those hurt.
An Israeli military spokesman said aircraft attacked a total of six targets.
“They were two terror tunnels, two arms manufacturing facilities and two other sites,” a spokesman told AFP, adding that the tunnels were intended for staging attacks under the border fence into Israel.
He said that the raids were in response to a wave of 56 rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel since Saturday.
Another tunnel was hit in a single and separate attack early Monday evening, the military said.
Palestinian witnesses said that among targets in the north and centre of the strip were a police post of Hamas, which rules Gaza, and a training facility of its military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, which earlier offered to stop cross-border fire into Israel if the Israelis halted attacks on Gaza.
A factory producing construction materials and a metal workshop were also hit, while in southern Gaza there were at least three strikes in the vicinity of Khan Younis town, witnesses said.
One targeted a group of fleeing activists, one a building belonging to the town council and another an empty plot, they said, adding that no casualties were recorded.
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