The airborne assaults, which were launched in the early hours of Wednesday morning, reportedly hit four�areas in the southern parts of the Palestinian blockaded enclave. There has been no word�on the possible casualties and damage inflicted by those strikes.
The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the raids were conducted a few hours after a rocket allegedly fired from the center of Gaza was intercepted by the regime�s so-called Iron Dome missile system over the city of Ashdod on the Mediterranean shore.
The regime�s military blamed the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas for the rocket attack, but according to Israeli daily Haaretz, a Daesh-affiliated group, called the Omar Hadid Brigade, claimed the responsibility for the rocket fire.
The Israeli daily reported that the Grad-type rocket was the first to be launched at Ashdod from Gaza since the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave in summer of 2014.
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Palestinian laborers work on the rubble of buildings that were destroyed in the Israeli 50-day war against the besieged Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, during a sandstorm in Gaza City on September 9, 2015. (AFP)[/caption]Israel�s 50-day military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which started in early July and ended on August 26 last year�with a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital Cairo, left�nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children,�dead. Over 11,100 others � including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people � were also wounded.
Since 2007,�Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza, which has caused a serious decline in the standard�of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
By Press TV
