(Xinhua) -- Israeli Apache attack helicopters struck by air-to-ground missiles after midnight three different targets belong to Islamic Jihad and Fatah movements in the Gaza Strip, security sources and witnesses said early Sunday. The eyewitnesses said that the Israeli helicopters hovered over Gaza City at midnight, and then several explosions were heard in the western and northern parts of the city. They said that the first target which was hit is an office belongs to the Islamic Jihad movement in western Gaza City, adding that one Palestinian was moderately injured and severe destruction was caused to the building. Two other targets belong to Fatah movement's armed wing, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said the sources, adding that no injuries were reported, but severe damages were caused to the two constructions. The sources said that the two other targets were hit by the Israeli Apache missiles are metal workshops, which Israel says it manufacture homemade rockets and mortars that militants fire from Gaza at Israel.
The Israeli air strikes was retaliation to an earlier attack carried out by the armed wings of Fatah and Islamic Jihad on an Israeli army base on the borders between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel. In the attack, a 21-year-old Islamic Jihad militant was killed, and three others managed to flee the site. No injuries were reported in the Israeli side, according to Israel's Army Radio.