GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes flew three raids against the Gaza Strip overnight wounding one person, witnesses and Palestinian medical officials said on Friday.A Palestinian man was hurt when the planes attacked the town of Rafah, in the southern part of the territory close to the border with Egypt. Nobody was wounded in the two other raids on the former airport, also in the south, and the town of Beit Hanun in the north.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raids to AFP.
“Our planes attacked an armoury in the north of the Gaza Strip and two tunnels used for gun running in the south' from Egypt, she said. “The raids are a reaction to the shelling Thursday from the Gaza Strip of the western sector of the Negev desert' in southern Israel, she added.
A dozen mortar rounds were fired from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with seven of them hitting Israel but none causing any casualties or damage, an Israeli army spokeswoman said earlier.
Around 100 rockets and mortar rounds have hit Israel since the beginning of the year, the army says.