Gaza City, March 22: Israeli warplanes struck the southern part of the Gaza Strip in an overnight raid, Palestinian witnesses and the Israeli military said Monday.
The aircraft attacked a tunnel on the Rafah sector on the border with Egypt, but no one was injured, said witnesses.
A military spokesman confirmed the raid, saying they had hit a tunnel used for arms smuggling and in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian side.
The Israeli army said earlier that one rocket was fired into southern Israel late Sunday from the Gaza Strip though it landed without causing any injuries or damage,.
Israeli warplanes have struck with a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip. So far the raids have slightly injured two people.
Israel’s war on Gaza killed nearly 1,400 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and wounded 5,450 others.
The war also left tens of thousands of houses destroyed, while their residents remained homeless.
Human rights groups, both international and Israeli, slammed Israel’s siege of Gaza, branding it “collective punishment.”
Gaza is still considered under Israeli occupation as Israel controls air, sea and land access to the Strip.
The Rafah crossing with Egypt, Gaza’s sole border crossing that bypasses Israel, rarely opens as Egypt is under immense US and Israeli pressure to keep the crossing shut.
Fatah has little administrative say in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and has no power in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, both of which are Palestinian territories illegally occupied by Israel in 1967.
—Agencies