JERUSALEM – Israeli jets pounded Hamas positions in Gaza, the military saidearly today.

“Israel Air Force fighter jets targeted a target in a military compoundbelonging to the Hamas organisation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip,” it saidin an English-language statement.

The strike on the enclave’s Islamist rulers came after four Palestinians”carrying bottles filled with flammable material” breached Gaza’s borderfence on Saturday evening near the kibbutz of Kissufim, Israeli dailyHaaretz reported, citing the army.

There, an army spokeswoman told AFP, they attempted to torch heavyequipment used for work on the frontier barrier.