Gaza strip: Israeli war planes attacked the Gaza Strip on Thursday, reportedly in response to a rocket attack on a southern Israeli city, news agencies reported.
Sources said that there were no reports of casualties in the air force strikes or from the rocket that targeted the city of Beersheba, home to about 200,000 people 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
The retaliation fire comes after a day of clashes along the Gaza border in which militant was killed and 10 other people wounded.
The military said in a statement it had “targeted a terrorist squad in the northern Gaza Strip, in the same location where rockets were fired towards the Israeli city.”
Later, war planes bombed several other sites across the coastal strip, which the military called “hubs of terror.” no further details, were available.
The army said it held Hamas “solely responsible for maintaining the calm in the Gaza Strip and for any terrorist activity emanating from it.”
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Sahlom said he saw Iran’s in the surge of violence, trying to take advantage of the turmoil sweeping the region.
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