GAZA CITY - The Israeli air force attacked a training camp used by a militant Palestinian group in Gaza City overnight, the military and witnesses said. There were no reports of any victims after an Israeli aircraft fired several missiles into the camp operated by the Popular Resistance Committees.
On Monday, two militants from the Committees, which regularly claims responsibility for firing home-made rockets into Israel, were killed in an Israeli air strike over the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The military confirmed that aircraft overnight attacked a weapons factory in Gaza that was producing makeshift rockets. Aircraft also conducted raids against so-called access routes to prevent militants from travelling to grounds used to launch the rocket attacks, the military said.
The army said 13 rockets have been fired at Israel in the past 24 hours, one of which hit a house in Defence Minister Amir PeretzÂ’s home town of Sderot and landed in a young personÂ’s bed. Citing unnamed military sources, Israeli army radio reported that ruling Palestinian movement Hamas was behind a series of rocket attacks on Sderot on Tuesday in which one woman was lightly wounded. |