Israel said Monday its forces carried out dozens of air and tank strikes in Gaza on Sunday in response to a rocket that hit a southern Israeli town.
Palestinian medical officials said four people were wounded in the strikes, which came after a rocket was fired from Gaza into the city of Sderot without causing any injuries.
A spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Israel “carries responsibility for the escalation in the Gaza Strip and this new aggression will not succeed” in weakening the movement.
Security sources in the territory said several targets in northern Gaza were hit by Israeli fire, and that a reservoir in the city of Beit Hanun was destroyed. Bases of Hamas military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as of two smaller militant groups were hit, the security officials said. There were no reports of further attacks Monday.
Israel has invaded besieged Palestinians three times since 2008, including the last aggression in the summer of 2014 that killed 2,251 Palestinians.
An Israeli Army spokeswoman said: “We conducted strikes against several dozen targets in the Gaza Strip” on Sunday. The military said it stopped all strikes before midnight, but an AFP journalist in the strip said explosions were heard until about 4 a.m.

Source: Arab News