Gazans fired several rockets toward southern Israel and IDF warplanes carried out sorties in the Gaza Strip early Friday as tit-for-tat fighting broke out amid sky-high tensions following a West Bank raid that left nine Palestinian dead a day earlier.
At least three rockets were fired from Gaza at around 3:30 a.m. Friday, as Israeli jets bombed sites said to belong to the Hamas terror group in retaliation for a rocket attack hours earlier.
One of the rockets was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, another landed in an open field and a third fell short of the border, the army said, after alarms sounded in the towns Nir Oz, Ein Habesor and Magen.
The military said it was also investigating after incoming sirens were activated near Kfar Aza, a kibbutz near the Gaza border.
The rocket attacks came as Israeli jets carried out a series of bombing raids in the central Gaza Strip in response to Gazan terrorists firing two rockets toward Ashkelon at midnight. Both projectiles were intercepted by Iron Dome.
The military said it targeted an underground facility where rockets are manufactured in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.
“The attack will lead to significant harm to Hamas efforts to build up its arms,” the IDF said in a statement.
The Palestinian Shehab news site claimed that Gazan fighters fired anti-aircraft weapons and ground-to-air missiles at the Israeli planes carrying out the attacks.
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