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Israeli war jets strike northern, central Gaza in response to rocket firing: officials

Xinhua, July 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli war jets carried out early Thursday three separate airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip in response to a rocket fired from the coastal enclave into southern Israel, security officials said.

During the raid, the Israeli war jets lauched altogether three missiles at two military posts belonging to the Islamic Hamas Movement, respectively to the north and east of Gaza Strip, the security officials said, adding that no injuries were reported throughout the strikes.

Unknown militants fired one rocket from the Gaza Strip overnight, which landed on an open area close to the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon; no injuries or damage were reported.

This is the fifth time that Israel retaliated with such airstrikes for rockets fired into Israel since the end of the Jewish state's large-scale military air and ground operation last summer that lasted for 51 days.

Egypt brokered a truce between Israel and Gaza Hamas-led militants on Aug. 26 last year, ending the fighting between the two sides that killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 73 Israelis.

Radical Islamists belonging to the Salafist armed groups in the Gaza Strip have been responsible for the several rockets fired from the enclave into Israel in May and June this year.

A third party has been mediating a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas. Officials in the Islamic movement didn't deny that they were offered new ideas related to reaching a long-term truce with Israel. Enditem