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Israeli war jets strike on central Gaza in response to rocket attack

Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli war jets struck on Monday night an Islamic Hamas movement military facility in central Gaza Strip, no injuries reported, according to security and medical officials.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli war jets had first hovered over the Gaza Strip and then fired at least two missiles on a military training base that belongs to Hamas militants east of al-Mughazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.

Security officials in Gaza said the Israeli airstrike caused no damages or injuries.

An Israeli army spokesman said in a press statement that Israeli air forces attacked by air-to-ground missiles a training facility that belongs to Hamas in response to earlier rockets firing.

On Monday morning, unknown militants fired one rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, according to the spokesman, who added that the rocket landed at an empty area causing no damages or injuries.

No one claimed responsibility for the rocket attack.

Since the end of the Israeli large-scale offensive waged on the Gaza Strip for 50 days and ended on Aug. 26 last year, several militant groups in the coastal enclave have been frequently firing rockets from Gaza into southern Israel.

The Israeli army usually held Hamas responsible for the rockets attacks, where Israeli war jets carry out airstrikes on its military bases allover the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry said that 97 Palestinians had been killed since the outbreak of a wave of tension and violent confrontations between Israel and the Palestinians in the Palestinian territories.

In the meantime, 19 Israelis were killed in a series of shooting, running cars over and stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians against Israel in protest to the Israeli measures against al-Aqsa Mosque in east Jerusalem. Endit