| Israeli helicopters fired missiles at suspected weapons-making factories in Gaza City, the army said. Plumes of black smoke were seen rising above buildings in the south-eastern Zeitoun neighbourhood. There were no immediate reports of casualties. An army spokesman was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying several workshops in the same building were hit. There have been a number of homemade rockets on Jewish settlements in Gaza and surrounding Israeli towns. "The Israeli air force attacked weaponry workshops, all in the same structure... used by Hamas terrorists and other terrorist organisations to produce a variety of weapons, especially Qassam rockets," said the spokesman in Jerusalem. The Associated Press reported that the attack started a huge fire, and Palestinian firefighters battled to stop flames spreading to nearby buildings. |