- 28 febr 2011
21-Year-Old Killed, Two Injured in Separate Gaza Strip Explosions
A scene from an earlier Gaza airstrike
Gaza City PNN Israeli airstrikes on Sunday evening killed one Palestinian man and injured one other in the neighborhood of al-Zeitoun, east of Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses said the airstrikes targeted a group of civilians traveling in al-Zeitoun, killing Abdulmajeed Ghazi Shaheen, 21, and injuring one other man, unnamed. Both were taken to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, according to Adham Abu Salmiya, an emergency services spokesman.
Salmiya also said a 37-year-old Palestinian worker was injured in airstrikes near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
Overnight airstrikes have injured 10 other Palestinians in the same region since Wednesday. The areas targeted have included the Martyrs Graveyard in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip and agricultural land around the al-Ghazi refugee camp.
According to Reuters, the Israeli military did not have a comment about the airstrike. YNetNews quoted an Israeli military official as saying the army had nothing to do with the explosion. The incident comes after Gaza-based fighters fired homemade Qassam rockets into the Negev desert, for which the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
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Israel Bombs Gaza
GAZA, Israeli artillery Monday bombarded the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, south of Gaza, according to witnesses.
Ambulances headed to the scene after reports of injuries, they said.
Israeli armored vehicles also carried out incursions Monday east of Rafah. The vehicles bombed a Palestinian house and destroyed parts of it. There are no immediate reports of injuries.
Israeli forces bombed al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza Sunday night, killing one Palestinian and injuring several others.
The Israeli army had killed one Palestinian Wednesday and injured 10 others
Israeli aircrafts also launched strikes east of Jabalya, north of Gaza, and agricultural land east of Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported.
Israeli bombing of Gaza came as retaliation after a missile struck the southern Israeli city of Beersheba for the first time in two years, which came in response to several violent incidents in Gaza including an Israeli killing of an Islamic Jihad fighter in northern Gaza earlier last week.
Beersheba is the largest city in the Naqab desert of southern Israel, often referred to as the capital of the Naqab, and is the seventh largest city in Israel with a population of 194,800.
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Israeli raid kills Palestinian, ministry accuses Israel of lying to justify raid
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian youth was killed in an Israeli aerial raid on Sunday night east of Gaza city in the latest of a series of military escalation against the besieged Strip that killed one and injured 15 over the past few days.
Local sources said that an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at a group of Palestinians in Zaitun suburb east of Gaza city killing one of them instantly.
Israeli warplanes and artillery had shelled east of Gaza city and Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza earlier on Sunday with no casualties reported.
The Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said that the raid killed one of its cadres and wounded two others.
It said that the martyr Abdulmajid Shahin was from Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, describing the injuries of the two others as moderate.
For its part, the interior ministry in Gaza said that Israel was publishing lies about firing projectiles from Gaza in the past few days to justify the escalation against Gaza.
It said in a press release on Sunday that Israels lies also aimed at covering its Judaization practices in occupied Jerusalem and building settlements in the West Bank.
The ministry asked the world community to curb Israels crimes and warned against believing its rumors or publishing them, adding that it was following up the issue with the Palestinian resistance factions to deny Israel any pretext.
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Palestinian civilian wounded in IOF shelling, two detained
RAFAH, (PIC)-- A 37-year-old Palestinian man was wounded with shrapnel of Israeli shelling while passing near the Gaza international airport in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Monday, medical sources reported.
The spokesman for medical services Adham Abu Salmiya said that the man was carried to hospital in moderate condition.
The PIC reporter in the area said that the Israeli occupation forces shelled the airport vicinity during an incursion east of Rafah city.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers detained two Palestinians in Al-Khalil city at dawn Monday, claiming they were wanted for questioning by the intelligence. No names were given by the IOF statement.
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hamzah_1992 Gaza: LOTS of israeli airplanes flying over Gaza right now. Let's see how the party goes tonight.
Hamas slams Israel's justification for its killing of civilians 9 years ago
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement strongly denounced the Israeli occupation state for acquitting killers of Al-Qassam leader Salah Shehadeh who was among dozens of children and civilians who were bombed during an aerial attack nine years ago on a residential area in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated on Monday that the Israeli decision to exonerate the perpetrators was an insolent challenge to the Palestinian people's feelings and official encouragement for more crimes and terrorist attacks against the Palestinians.
Spokesman Barhoum emphasized that Israel practices systematic state terrorism and always confers legitimacy on its war crimes.
"This file and all files of the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation must be referred to the international criminal court and there should be decisions that curb this entity and isolate it internationally as well as the international institutions should impose economic, security, military, and political sanctions on Israel, expose its crimes and support the justice of the Palestinian cause," the spokesman underlined.
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Hamas warns of Israel's use of regional events to wage new war on Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement said that Israel's escalation of its military attacks on the Gaza Strip is dangerous and coincides with its threats to wage a new devastating war on the Strip, warning that Israel is not concerned with creating a state of calm and stability in Palestine.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Sunday that his Movement takes Israel's war threats seriously.
Spokesman Barhoum affirmed that Israel exploits the American financial, military and security support as well as the international community's preoccupation with the regional changes to escalate its crimes and ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians and destabilize the Palestinian arena.
The spokesman stressed that the repeated Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people are taking place in the absence of the international justice and the genuine Arab support for the Palestinian cause.
Political writer and analyst Mustafa Assawaf said that the Fatah-controlled Palestinian authority is in disarray and does not know what it wants, especially after it said that Salam Fayyad's reconciliation plan would destroy Fatah faction.
"This gives a clear indication that Fatah Movement is not stable and suffers from a state of reactions as a result of the events taking place in the region, and all its previous moves were a reaction to absorb the masses' anger at its terrorist behavior in the West Bank," Assawaf added in a press release on Sunday.
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Maria 28 febr 2011
Paramedics wounded in Israeli shooting, as more demolition notices served
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Union of Arab Paramedics said that three Palestinian paramedics at least were wounded on Sunday during the violent confrontations that erupted between Israeli police forces and Palestinian protestors in occupied Jerusalem.
The town of Silwan in particular is witnessing escalating assaults by Israeli policemen who use live and rubber bullets in addition to teargas to quell angry protests against Israeli confiscation of land demolition of homes in the village, south of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said that 20 Palestinians were injured on Saturday during the confrontations.
Meanwhile, Israeli-controlled municipality of the holy city served a new batch of notices to Jerusalemites in Beit Hanina, Shufat refugee camp, Wadi Al-Dam, and Marwaha, in northern Jerusalem.
Local sources said that the municipality was imposing very high prices for requesting a construction permit that on average reach around 28,000 dollars along with other impossible conditions forcing Palestinian inhabitants to build without permits.
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Maria 28 febr 2011
Palestinian civilian wounded in IOF shelling, two detained
Israeli policemen detain 9 Palestinian boys including 7-year-old
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Israeli artillery fire injures 1 in Rafah
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- Fire from an Israeli tank injured at least one man near the southern Gaza border Monday, witnesses told Ma'an.
An Israeli tank fired several shells near Gaza International Airport, reports said.
Gaza emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed that one man was moderately injured and evacuated to the Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said tanks operating as part of "routine activity along the security fence" in southern Gaza identified a "group of militants that had been involved in a number of terror attacks against IDF soldiers."
She said the tank fired a number of shells toward the group and "identified a hit."
In a statement released early afternoon Monday, the National Resistance Brigades said fighters operating east of Rafah fired rocket-propelled grenades toward Israeli tanks. The group is the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Gaza escalation
The incident comes less than 12 hours after Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian worker along the northern border of the coastal enclave, according to AFP. http://bit.ly/ieZ5CJ
On Sunday a Palestinian militant was killed and two others injured in a reported Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City, according to witnesses. AFP quoted officials saying the injuries were caused by Israeli tank artillery fire. http://bit.ly/eZOG6Q
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad group, said one of its members, Abdelmajid Shahin, was killed and another was lightly wounded in the incident.
Israeli military officials said no such attack had taken place, but noted that Palestinian factions operating in the area had fired a mortar shell toward Israel earlier Sunday.
The reported projectile fire followed a string of Israeli air raids Saturday night, targeting what the Israeli army described as militant training camps across the area.
One air strike near Rafah wounded four people including a toddler, Palestinian officials and medics said. http://bit.ly/i70ulE
Projectile reports exaggeration
The government in Gaza http://bit.ly/dOHG0C accused Israel on Sunday of exaggerating and fabricating reports of projectile fire, as a pretext to ramp-up violence against Gaza. Hamas said in the statement it wanted to avoid a new test of force with Israel.
"We are determined to continue a policy of national consensus with all the Palestinian factions," it said in a reference to instructions to observe a ceasefire.
Israeli Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld announced Sunday a raise in Israel's alert level, following reports from the Israeli military that a rocket fired from Gaza struck a field in the Eshkol region in southern Israel.
"The security examination was undertaken after the new Palestinian rocket fire on Sunday and because of the continued unrest in the Arab and Muslim world," Rosenfeld said.
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Israel planning "well studied" military strikes against Gaza
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israeli military sources said that the army was planning to level well studied military strikes against selective targets in the Gaza Strip rather than engage in all-out war.
A Hebrew paper quoted sources in Israel's southern military command as saying that the strikes would target arms caches, money smuggling routes, and Rafah tunnels that are being used to smuggle weapons into the Strip in the absence of Egyptian monitoring of the borders. The sources did not rule out targeted strikes outside Gaza.
The sources said that Israel relayed its concern to Cairo over the Gaza border conditions and that it would not allow any threat against its security. The sources pointed to the recent Palestinian resistance's alleged firing of Grad rockets at Beer Sheba and Netviot.
Israeli press reports said that Cairo was not pleased with the Israeli threat to strike Gaza.
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Maria 1 mrt 2011
Palestinian youth wounded in IOF shelling
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian young man was wounded on Tuesday in Israeli army shelling at a group of people east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, medical sources announced.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, told the PIC that the 22-year-old youth was hit with shrapnel in his foot.
He said that the young man was taken to a hospital in Deir Al-Balah in moderate condition.
IOF armored vehicles earlier withdrew from Khuza'a also east of Khan Younis after advancing a few meters into the area. Palestinian resistance factions had confronted the troops.
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29 oct 2012, 12:38 , Respect -
Maria 1 mrt 2011
IOF troops raid southern Gaza, settler runs over 5-year-old child
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced hundreds of meters into Qarara town east of Khan Younis, to the south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday and bulldozed farmland.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF troops in eight armored vehicles escorted four military bulldozers while damaging Palestinian land.
The sources said that the IOF soldiers were firing intermittently, but no casualties were so far reported.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, a Jewish settler deliberately ran over 5-year-old Palestinian child Qutaiba Al-Rajabi on Monday in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil.
Local sources said that the settler ran over the child near his family home and sped away without helping the child. Medical sources in hospital said that the child's injuries were moderate.
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Israeli gunboats shell Palestinian fishing boats
RAFAH, (PIC)-- A Palestinian fishing boat was destroyed on Tuesday when Israeli navy gunboats shelled a group of boats anchored at the Rafah coast, to the south of the Gaza Strip.
PIC reporter said that the navy vessels fired a number of shells at the fishing boats directly hitting one of them. He added that fire started in the small boat but no casualties were reported.
Israeli gunboats systematically chase Palestinian fishermen and their crude boats on and off the shores of Gaza.
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Gaddafi: Forces responding 'like Israel in Gaza'
Leader calls for probe on uprisings as Turkey offers to attack Libya in exchange for EU membership.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said Wednesday that his forces were attacking rebels "like Israeli tanks in the streets of Gaza, and similarly to what is happening in Afghanistan".
He called on the United Nations and NATO to investigate the facts about what had happened in Libya, and said he saw a conspiracy to colonise Libya and seize its oil.
"I dare you to find that peaceful protesters were killed. In America, France, and everywhere, if people attacked military stores and tried to steal weapons, they will shoot them," he said in a speech.
Forces loyal to Gaddafi launched a major fightback in Libya's east on Wednesday, sparking a rebel warning that foreign military help might be needed to "put the nail in his coffin" and end his long rule.
The Herald Tribune reported Wednesday that Turkey had offered to spearhead a NATO offensive against Libyan forces in exchange for acceptance into the European Union. US President Barack Obama supports the offer, diplomats told the paper.
Meanwhile, in his televised speech, Gaddafi said he was not a president and so could not resign his position. "Muammar Gaddafi is not a president to resign, he does not even have a parliament to dissolve,"he said in a speech, adding that he held "no position from which to step down."
"The Libyan system is a system of the people and no one can go against the authority of the people. .. The people are free to choose the authority they see fit," he said.
"We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people," he told an applauding audience shown on Libyan television, referring to his system of "direct democracy" which he outlined in his Green Book political manifesto.
Washington 'keeping pressure on Gaddafi'
Wednesday also saw government troops briefly capturing Marsa El Brega, an oil export terminal, before being driven back by rebels who have controlled the town 800 km east of the capital Tripoli for about a week, rebel officers said.
Arab television and rebel officers said earlier the Libyan military operation was successful but a spokesman for the opposition coalition in Benghazi said Gaddafi forces had fled.
Anti-Gaddafi forces have been firmly in charge of eastern Libya up to Marsa El Brega and some areas beyond, since shortly after anti-government protests erupted in mid-February.
Coinciding with the offensive, state television broadcast images that it said showed security officers killed in the eastern Libya. It showed about 10 corpses with their hands tied behind their backs and with pools of blood around their heads.
The assaults appear to have been the most significant military moves in the east by Gaddafi since the uprising began two weeks ago and set off a confrontation that Washington says could descend into a civil war unless Gaddafi steps down.
"We are going to keep the pressure on Gaddafi until he steps down and allows the people of Libya to express themselves freely and determine their own future," Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, told ABC's "Good Morning America".
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Maria 2 mrt 2011
IOF troops detain 6 Palestinians in Al-Khalil, destroy pond as settlers escalate
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IOF kidnap anew Palestinian MP Salhab
Gaza man detained en route to hospital
IOF detains 7 Palestinians including crippled man, 90 in Al-Khalil in February
10 detained in West Bank overnight
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Maria 4 mrt 2011
Gaza: Car Bombed in Airstrike, Israeli Gunfire Reported, One Arrested at Beit Hanoun Crossing
Gaza City PNN - Israeli fighter jets struck an empty Palestinian car at dawn on Friday morning in the middle of Gaza City. In other incidents, a small Israeli incursion was reported near Rafah and one man was arrested at the Beit Hanoun crossing in the north.
The missile strike in the Nusayrat Refugee Camp in Gaza City did not wound or kill anyone, according to medical sources, but the sound of the explosion could be heard for blocks.
Local sources also reported a small Israeli military incursion east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, including several tanks and bulldozers. The bulldozers ripped up Palestinian agricultural land and gunfire was reported, but no injuries. Gunfire was also reported from an Israeli control tower east of Khan Yunis in the central Strip, directed at a farmhouse. There were no injuries.
One Palestinian, 20-year-old Mahdi Atef Abu Nasser of Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip, was arrested at Beit Hanoun crossing in the north on Thursday morning. Local sources said he was accompanied by his mother on his way to medical treatment in the West Bank. Neither was allowed to cross.
The Red Cross called me and told me that our son Mahdi is now in Migdal Prison and that I should get a lawyer, said Nasser’s father. They contacted human rights organizations immediately, as well as the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners.
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Witnesses: Airstrike targets central Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes struck a car in central Gaza Friday morning causing no injuries, witnesses said.
Locals said Israeli fighter jets fired two missiles near the An-Nuseirat refugee camp, destroying a jeep belonging to a resistance fighter.
Many Israeli drones were hovering over Gaza at the time of the raid, residents said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman was not immediately familiar with the attack.
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PCHR:Israeli Army kills Two Palestinians and Arrest 13
Gaza - PNN/PCHR Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in the past week targeting the Gaza Strip and West Bank communities and soldiers arrested 13 other civilians, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in its weekly report.
The report, which documents daily human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, covers the period of Thursday, February 24, to Wednesday, March, 2, 2011
Shooting:
This week the Israeli army killed a Palestinian worker and a resistance activist, and wounded a worker, a farmer and a resistance activist in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child in the West Bank.
In the Gaza Strip, on 27 February 2011,Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel shot dead a Palestinian worker who was collecting scraps of construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip, nearly 300 meters away from the border. Another worker was wounded by IOF on 26 February 2011.
On 27 February 2011, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian resistance activist in the east of Gaza City. An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a number of activists of The al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad).
On 28 February 2011, Israeli troops wounded a Palestinian resistance activist in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
On 01 March 2011, a Palestinian farmer was wounded when Israeli tanks fired an artillery shell at a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance in the central Gaza Strip.
During the reporting period, the Israeli army launched a series of air strikes against the Gaza Strip. As a result, 4 houses were destroyed and 14 others were damaged, 11 civilian facility were heavily damaged, a security building was destroyed and a mosque was damaged.
In the West Bank, during the reporting period, Israeli soldiers used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank.
As a result, 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded, and dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation, including a PCHR field worker, a paramedic and two journalists. Additionally, Israeli troops arrested a Palestinian civilian, an Israeli journalist, an Israeli human rights defender and two international ones.
Incursions:
During the reporting period, the Israeli army conducted at least 40 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces conducted 3 limited incursions into the southern and central Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land.
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West Bank: Settlers Destroy 500 Olive Saplings, Three Arrested and Car Impounded in Hebron
Center: Al-Qassam detainee punished for talking to another inmate
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IOF turn O. Jerusalem into closed military zone
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday turned the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem into a closed military zone and intensified their presence in the Old City and at the entrances to the Aqsa Mosque.
Natives from the holy city said that a large number of Israeli troops, mounted policemen, and border guards were deployed at the entrances of the Old City and the checkpoints between Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The troops checked the IDs of passersby and detained some young men for a short time. This Israeli security campaign was launched to prevent any intended protests following Friday prayers.
In another incident the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) ordered the displacement of two Jerusalemite families from their homes in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, in order to bring a Jewish settler to live in their place at the pretext he owns the lands these two houses were built on.
The Hebrew radio reported the evacuation decision was issued by the Israeli magistrates' court, west of Jerusalem, and noted that the Hebrew university owns part of these lands.
For its part, the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage said Thursday that a large number of Israeli troops and policemen carried out lately break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque and toured its premises.
The foundation warned that such Israeli moves are usually followed by malicious steps and plans against the holy Islamic Mosque.
It urged the Palestinian people in the holy city and the 1948 occupied lands to frequent the Aqsa Mosque, describing the repeated visits to the Mosque as the safety valve that would protect it against any Israeli schemes targeting it.
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Israel launches series of air raids on Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes launched a number of air strikes on the Gaza Strip after midnight Saturday causing material damage but no casualties were reported.
Security sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s fired a missile at a deserted area in Zaitun suburb east of Gaza city causing big material damage to a number of nearby homes and warehouses.
Other warplanes shelled Abu Jarad area south of Gaza city while two missiles were fired at a building still under construction for the Islamic University in the same area, the reporter said, adding that the air strikes also targeted a land lot for Abu Sitta family.
The raids did not inflict any human casualties but in February they killed seven and wounded 46 others including children.
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Israeli warplanes strike Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes raided three areas in the central and northern Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.
No injuries have been reported.
Witnesses said their homes shook when F16 fighter jets fired missiles at an open area near a mosque in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. They said some homes and shops near the mosque sustained material damage, but there were no injuries.
Separately, Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a structure under construction belonging to the Islamic University south of Gaza City.
In the central Gaza Strip, a missile was fired from the air at an open space near the Zawayda sports club.
The Israeli military said the strikes targeted "a terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip and two terror activity sites in the central Gaza Strip," in a statement.
The army said direct hits were confirmed and that the "terror tunnel" was used by fighters to infiltrate Israel.
The raids were in response to rocket fire into Israel on Saturday, the statement added.
A military spokeswoman said a projectile was fired into the Negev desert in southern Israel on Saturday, causing no damage or injuries.
The army said it held Hamas solely responsible for any attacks emanating from the Gaza Strip.
In January, Hamas ordered its security forces to ensure factions observed a ceasefire with Israel.
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