(AKI) - The Israeli airforce on Thursday said it bombed two suspected weapons-smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, with no casualties being reported. Witnesses quoted by Palestinian news agency Maan said that the bombing took place in the Rafah refugee camp, along the border with Egypt.The Israeli military said the strike was in response to several Qassam rockets and one mortar shell fired into southern Israel on Wednesday. No damage or injuries resulted from those attacks, Maan reported
Four Qassam rockets fired from Gaza on Wednesday landed in open fields causing no injuries of damage. A mortar shell reportedly landed close to a factory at a kibbutz, causing slight damage but no injuries.
IAF planes bombed two suspected arms smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, just hours after another airstrike wounded three members of a Palestinian rocket-launching squad.
Following Israel's Operation Cast Lead offensive against the coastal sliver in December 2008 and January 2009, Israel and Palestinian factions declared a unilateral ceasefire on 18 and 19 January respectively.
Israeli armed forces and Palestinian militants have repeatedly broken the ceasefires since.
Over 1,330 Palestinians were killed in the operation and over 5,400 were injured. Thirteen Israelis died during the conflict.
The tunnels in southern Gaza are used to import goods made scarce by Israel's crippling economic blockade of the aid- dependent coastal strip, and allegedly to smuggle in arms.
The Israeli blockade has been in place since the Islamist Hamas seized control of Gaza from the more moderate Palestinian group Fatah.