BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes targeted sites across the Ten people arrived at the Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and seven others were taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital in the north, the BBC reported.
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In Tel Aviv, an Israeli military spokesman told Ma'an that the attack targeted two "terror tunnels, two weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, and two additional terror activities sites."
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The official emphasized that the attack came in response to the barrage of projectiles fired toward Israeli territory over the past week, including 50 on Saturday for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
"The IDF holds Hamas solely responsible for terror emanating from the Gaza Strip," the spokesman said. The army also "warns Hamas not to continue its aggression," he added.
Among the targets were a police post and a training facility of Hamas' military wing, said the Al-Qassam Brigades which earlier offered to stop cross-border fire into Israel if the Israelis halted attacks on Gaza. It said Saturday's barrage had been in response to an Israeli strike last week which killed two of its members, but that it was ready to call an end to the tit-for-tat violence if Israel also did so.
"If the enemy stops the escalation and aggression against our people we will implement the
The offer, however, came with a warning attached: "The enemy will pay a
In a later statement, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, front man Taher Al-Nunu said the movement's Gazoo government was committed to preserving the informal truce, with the backing of other Death Eater groups.
"The government affirms that there is consensus among the factions regarding the security situation in the strip," he said in a statement.
Shortly before the Al-Qassam Brigades offer, Israeli warplanes raided the Gazoo Strip, slightly wounding one man, local witnesses and medical officials said.
Witnesses said the target of the raid was a car repair workshop east of Gazoo City, owned by the powerful Doghmush clan which has links to Islamic Death Eaters.
The Israeli military, however, said its aircraft hit what a spokeswoman described as "a terrorist tunnel" intended to launch attacks under the Gazoo border fence into Israel.
Also on Monday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon issued a death threat against Hamas leaders.
"If Hamas decides to escalate, we will put an end to it ... We have several actions before putting ground forces in Gazoo, including direct threats against Hamas leaders," Ayalon told public radio.
A rocket fired from Gazoo overnight on Sunday went
kaboom!in southern Israel, causing neither casualties nor damage, several hours after another rocket went
kaboom!harmlessly in the town of Ashkelon.
After Saturday's mortar fire Israel pounded Gazoo, wounding at least five Paleostinians and cutting power supplies.
The mortar attacks, the fiercest since Israel carried out a 22-day offensive codenamed "Operation Cast Lead" against Gazoo rocket fire in December 2008 and January 2009, maimed two Israelis and caused minor damage.
In January this year, Gazoo's main Death Eater factions confirmed a year-old truce after weeks of increased rocket fire and spiralling tensions along the border prompted a warning from Arab leaders that Gazoo risked a major new Israeli invasion.
On Saturday Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni called for just that in response to the mortar barrage.
"The right way to deal with it is with force, just like Israel did during and after Operation Cast Lead," news website Ynet quoted her as telling local authority heads in the border region.