The airborne assaults, which were launched in the early hours of Wednesday morning, reportedly hit fourareas in the southern parts of the Palestinian blockaded enclave. There has been no wordon 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 regimes so-called Iron Dome missile system over the city of Ashdod on the Mediterranean shore.
The regimes 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]Israels 50-day military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which started in early July and ended on August 26 last yearwith a truce that took effect after indirect negotiations in the Egyptian capital Cairo, leftnearly 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 standardof living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
By Press TV
