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IAF planes strike 2 rocket launching sites after terrorists fired mortars into Gaza. Article says Hamas detained 2 militants.
Israel warplanes strike Gaza after militant mortar fire
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israeli warplanes bombed two separate targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday after Palestinian militants fired projectiles across the border, the army said.
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The strikes in northern Gaza came just hours after witnesses reported an Israeli army incursion across the Strip's eastern borders, to which Islamist militants claimed to have responded with mortar fire.
The military said "aircraft targeted two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip" in response to two projectiles that had hit Israel since Wednesday.
An spokeswoman told AFP one of the projectiles was a rocket and the other a mortar round.
"Launching rockets against Israel and its civilians is a breach of our sovereignty. We maintain the right to operate against those who are involved in terror," said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
No casualties were reported in any of the attacks from either side.
Witnesses said earlier that Israeli troops backed by armour entered Gaza east of the southern town of Khan Yunis.
"Six military bulldozers accompanied by several tanks entered about 200 metres (yards) from the border into farmland, as helicopters and spy planes circled above near the village of Khuzaa," one witness told AFP.
"Resistance fighters fired several mortar rounds at the Israeli forces and explosions were heard in the area."
Israel warplanes strike Gaza after militant mortar fire
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Israeli warplanes bombed two separate targets in the Gaza Strip Thursday after Palestinian militants fired projectiles across the border, the army said.
srael kills four Hamas fighters in raid on Gaza tunnel AFP
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The strikes in northern Gaza came just hours after witnesses reported an Israeli army incursion across the Strip's eastern borders, to which Islamist militants claimed to have responded with mortar fire.
The military said "aircraft targeted two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip" in response to two projectiles that had hit Israel since Wednesday.
An spokeswoman told AFP one of the projectiles was a rocket and the other a mortar round.
"Launching rockets against Israel and its civilians is a breach of our sovereignty. We maintain the right to operate against those who are involved in terror," said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
No casualties were reported in any of the attacks from either side.
Witnesses said earlier that Israeli troops backed by armour entered Gaza east of the southern town of Khan Yunis.
"Six military bulldozers accompanied by several tanks entered about 200 metres (yards) from the border into farmland, as helicopters and spy planes circled above near the village of Khuzaa," one witness told AFP.
"Resistance fighters fired several mortar rounds at the Israeli forces and explosions were heard in the area."