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1st LD: Israeli war jets strike on southeast Gaza, no injuries: paramedics

Xinhua, June 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Israeli war jets launched an airstrike on an area close to the fence of the borders between Israel and southeast Gaza city; no injuries were reported, according to eyewitnesses and paramedics.

Security sources in Gaza told Xinhua that Israeli F16 warplanes fired one missile on an area close to the fence of the borders between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel to destroy an old tunnel dug underneath the borderline area.

The sources said the tunnel was discovered more than a week ago and it was destroyed its mouth in the Israeli side of the borders and the war planes destroyed it with one missile in the Gaza side of the borders.

Eyewitnesses said that they heard a huge explosion and no injuries were reported. The last Israeli air raid was on May 26 targeting training facilities of Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing, no injuries were reported.

In the summer of 2014, Israel waged a large-scale ground and air offensive on the Gaza Strip that lasted for 50 days to destroy dozens of tunnels Gaza militants dug underneath the borders between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli offensive ended after Egypt brokered a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants leaving more than 2,000 Palestinians and 70 Israelis killed. Endit