GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories —
Israeli jets, helicopters, and tanks struck southern Gaza late Saturday, targeting “a
rocket manufacturing site” belonging to Hamas, Israeli forces said.
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Palestinian sources told AFP the army had targeted
"a site of the Al-Qassam Brigades, west of Khan Yunis" in southern
Gaza, referring to the military wing of Hamas.
The sources also reported Israeli artillery fire on a
Hamas observation base in northern Gaza.
Hamas condemned the Israeli strike, with a spokesman
vowing "to defend our Palestinian people and liberate our land and our
holy sites from the occupation and its colonial settlers until achieving the
inevitable triumph".
The Israeli strike came after two rockets were fired
from the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, falling into the Mediterranean Sea off
Tel Aviv.
No warning sirens sounded and Israel's Iron Dome
rocket interception system did not deploy, the army said in a statement.
Sources in Hamas told AFP that "the firing of the
two rockets on Saturday morning was a technical problem due to the bad
weather".
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the
Hamas explanation on Sunday morning.
"All of Hamas's stories about lightning and
thunder, that repeat themselves winter after winter, are no longer
relevant," he said at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting.
"Whoever aims missiles at the State of Israel
will bear the consequences."
Israel has maintained a blockade on the impoverished
enclave since 2007, the year Hamas took power.
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