Israeli warplanes launched several raids at dawn today, Sunday, targeting a site for the Palestinian resistance west of Khan Yunis and agricultural land east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, causing material damage to the targeted places without any injuries being reported.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its air defenses confronted the Israeli aircraft in the skies of the Gaza Strip with surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.
A Hamas statement said, "We will not allow the occupation to change the equations, and we will continue to defend our people wherever they are."
On the other hand, the occupation army said that its fighters targeted a workshop for manufacturing weapons belonging to the Hamas movement, which is a center for the production of most of the movement's rockets, according to a statement.
The Israeli army added that it also targeted a Hamas tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, and said that these raids came in response to a missile fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday towards Israel.
Yesterday evening, Saturday, a rocket launched from the Strip fell in an uninhabited area in southern Israel, without causing any injuries or damage, according to what the Israeli army announced in a statement, and no party claimed responsibility for the missile launch.
This is the first time in nearly a month that the Israeli army has announced the detection of a missile launch from the Gaza Strip.
Israel put its defense system on alert around the Strip, in anticipation of a response by the Islamic Jihad movement, after the martyrdom of two of its field commanders in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, last Thursday.