Palestinians survey the site of a Hamas training camp after it was hit in an
sraeli air strike in Gaza City on Dec. 9, 2011. Israeli warplanes fired on an
open area west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with
Egypt on Saturday morning. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
sraeli air strike in Gaza City on Dec. 9, 2011. Israeli warplanes fired on an
open area west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with
Egypt on Saturday morning. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes fired on an open area west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt on Saturday morning.
No injuries have been reported.
The Israeli army said it confirmed a "direct hit" on a "terror-affiliated site."
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel after the strike, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
Violence flared between Gaza and Israel after Israeli airstrikes killed an Islamic Jihad fighter on Wednesday, and two affiliates of Fatah and Hamas' armed wings on Thursday.
A further airstrike on Gaza City on Friday morning hit a site of Hamas' armed group, and flattened a nearby house killing the owner; the man's 12-year-old son was pronounced dead hours later. The man's wife and five other children were wounded, medics said.
Militants responded with a barrage of rockets that struck southern Israel on Thursday and Friday, without causing injuries.
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in Gaza, said Friday he was "pursuing intensive contacts with several Arab and international parties, and we stress the necessity of this aggression being stopped immediately".
Cairo is trying to renew a truce to restore calm between its neighbors, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Thursday.
No injuries have been reported.
The Israeli army said it confirmed a "direct hit" on a "terror-affiliated site."
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel after the strike, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
Violence flared between Gaza and Israel after Israeli airstrikes killed an Islamic Jihad fighter on Wednesday, and two affiliates of Fatah and Hamas' armed wings on Thursday.
A further airstrike on Gaza City on Friday morning hit a site of Hamas' armed group, and flattened a nearby house killing the owner; the man's 12-year-old son was pronounced dead hours later. The man's wife and five other children were wounded, medics said.
Militants responded with a barrage of rockets that struck southern Israel on Thursday and Friday, without causing injuries.
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in Gaza, said Friday he was "pursuing intensive contacts with several Arab and international parties, and we stress the necessity of this aggression being stopped immediately".
Cairo is trying to renew a truce to restore calm between its neighbors, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Thursday.
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