JERUSALEM – The Israeli military says it has carried out airstrikes onmilitant sites in Gaza overnight in response to machine gun fire that hit abuilding in the Israeli city of Sderot.
The army said on Thursday that planes bombarded a military compound and aweapons production facility in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has said a man was moderately wounded byshrapnel, but didn’t say whether he was inside a militant site or nearby.
The airstrikes on Thursday came hours after Israeli forces came under firefrom the Palestinian territory. The military said no troops were wounded inWednesday’s exchange.
Israeli fire killed nearly 60 Palestinians on Monday during a protest alongthe Gaza border. A senior Hamas official said 50 of those killed weremembers of the militant group.