Palestinian gunners fired rockets in the direction of Israeli targets directly hitting and damaging a restaurant on Monday after Israeli warplanes struck houses in Gaza Strip. Izz-Eddine Al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of the Islamic organization, Hamas, said the gunners unleashed two missiles on the Israeli settlement of Yad Murdechai, located north of the strip, and four others on Nahal Ouz. A third missile attack targetted an Israeli farm village locted east of Absan. The group said the attacks were in retaliation for "the Zionist aggression targeting Gaza Strip and the continuous crimes by the enemy in Palestine and Lebanon." Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military arm of Fatah, and the National Resisitance Battalions of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine reported firing three rockets on an Israeli military position east of the border town of Rafah. The attack on the position in Abu Salem Al-Askari location was in response to "the Israeli occupation's massacres in Lebanon and Palestine."
A spokesman of the Israeli Army said in remarks broadcast by Israel Radio that a missile, fired by the Palestinian forces in the direction of Nejev, hit a restaurant in a farm village causing heavy damage. Meanwhile, Palestinian medical sources said Mohammed Al-Maghari, 22, who was wounded in an Israeli incursion two weeks ago,