Israeli army strikes Palestinian factions’ sites in Gaza

The Israeli army on Thursday bombed sites of Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported.

Israeli warplanes launched successive raids on military sites of armed factions in Gaza City and central areas of the strip, according to sources on the ground.

There were no reports of injuries, but the shelling caused violent explosions and damage to houses adjacent to the sites.

The Israeli army said that its “fighter jets struck a production site for raw chemical material production, along with a weapons manufacturing site belonging to the Hamas Terrorist Organization.”

It added that the shelling comes in “response to a rocket launch from Gaza into Israel earlier Wednesday.”

“The IDF holds Hamas responsible for all terrorism activity emanating from Gaza and it will face the consequences of security violations against Israel,” the army said.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, announced that its air defense units confronted invading Israeli warplanes on Gaza with surface-to-air missiles, without giving further details.