Israel pounds Gaza after rocket attacks
Israel targeted Hamas positions in southern Gaza late Saturday after rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave, security sources and the army said.
Palestinian sources told AFP the Israeli army had targeted "a site of the al-Qassam Brigades, west of Khan Yunis" in southern Gaza, referring to the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist movement controlling the territory. therre were no report of casualities from the strikes.
The sources also reported Israeli artillery fire on a Hamas observation base in northern Gaza.
The Israeli strike came after two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, falling into the Mediterranean Sea off Tel Aviv.
Israel has maintained a blockade on the impoverished enclave since 2007, the year Hamas took power.
Last year Hamas fired undreds of homemade rockets towards Israel during an 11-day conflict sparked by tensions in Jerusalem. The conflict saw more than 260 Palestinians killed.
A fragile ceasefire came into force in late May.
Since last year's 11-day war, only five rockets or mortar rounds were fired from Gaza towards Israeli territory, the military had said in an annual report released at the end of December, before the latest launches.
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