16 March 2019 01:02 am
GAZA REUTERS March 15-
Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza early on Friday after Israel’s miilitary said militants had fired two rockets towards the city of Tel Aviv.
The air strikes, the heaviest in five months, hit about 100 targets belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group which controls Gaza, the military said. These included a rocket manufacturing site, a naval post and weapons facility, and a Hamas headquarters, it claimaid.
Palestinian news media reported strikes throughout the densely populated coastal strip that is home to two million Palestinians. Four people were wounded, health ministry officials said.
The Israeli military accused Hamas of firing rockets from Gaza towards Tel Aviv - the first time the seaside city had been targeted since the 2014 Gaza War.
But Hamas denied responsibility.
The exchange was the most serious since a botched Israeli commando incursion into Gaza last November.
In the aftermath of that episode, dozens of Israeli air strikes killed seven Palestinians, at least five of them gunmen, and destroyed several buildings.