The Israel Air Force attacked what the military said was a weapons factory and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip before dawn Thursday, lightly injuring three people. The injured were civilians, Gaza emergency services chief Mo'aweya Hassanein said.
The airstrikes on the two tunnels in the border town of Rafah, near Egypt, and on the workshop in Khan Younis, was a response to recent rocket fire into Israel from Gaza, a military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said.
She said Gaza militants had fired some 15 rockets and mortar shells at Israel over the past month.
Some 270 have been fired at Israel since last January's Gaza war, she said. Israel launched the offensive after some 3,300 rockets were fired from Gaza during the year leading up to it.
Funny that according to these "rights" groups - as noted by what they do and do not protest - it's OK to launch rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilians, but not OK to launch controlled strikes against combat facilities that happen to be located near "Palestinian" civilians.
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By: Brant
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