Israeli planes strike Gaza after rocket attacks
Jerusalem: Israeli warplanes struck multiple militant targets in the Gaza Strip early today in response to earlier Palestinian rocket fire, but nobody was injured according to Palestinian security sources.
They said that the raids hit three training bases of the Izzadine al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Gaza City and a fourth in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
An Israeli military statement spoke only of three hits in total and did not give their location or identify the targets.
“Yesterday, June 3, 2015, two rockets were launched at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip,” it said, adding that they fell on open ground near the southern city of Ashkelon and the town of Netivot. “No injuries were reported.”
“In response to this attack, the Israel Defence Forces struck three terror infrastructures in the Gaza Strip,” it said.
Last night police reported that three rockets were fired but that patrols were searching to find where they had fallen.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Israel has a general policy of holding Hamas responsible for every rocket attack from the territory under its control, no matter which group actually launched it.
