Gaza, March 22: At least 17 people, including children, have been wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian emergency workers said.
Witnesses and medics said Israeli jets carried out at least five air strikes late on Monday in the northern town of Beit Lahiya and Gaza City.
Witnesses said a security compound for Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, a training camp north of the city and a brickworks and metal foundry in northern Gaza were among the targets.
An Israeli military spokesman said aircraft attacked a total of six targets, including two arms manufacturing facilities and two “terror tunnels” which he said were intended for staging attacks under the border fence into Israel.
He said that the raids were in response to a wave of 56 rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel since Saturday and that the military held Hamas “solely responsible for terrorist activity in the Gaza Strip and warns Hamas not to continue its aggression”.
—Agencies—