Israeli warplanes carried out at least four raids on the Gaza Strip early Tuesday martyring one and wounding seven
At least four Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip early Tuesday martyr one and wound seven people, Palestinian medics said.
The raids came after an Israeli police spokeswoman said that at least one rocket had been fired from the Gaza Strip at the southern town of Beersheva, without causing casualties.
"We learned of the martyrdom of the youth Musa Shtawe, 29, who died of his injuries after a strike east of Gaza City," Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services in the Gaza Strip said. "The outcome of the Israeli aggression during the past 24 hours is now one martyr and seven injured."
The Palestinian sources said the first raid targeted Zeitun to the east of Gaza City, seriously wounding three people, while two other Palestinians were lightly wounded in one of two separate raids, also east of the city.
Two further raids were carried out east of Khan Yunis and against a tunnel dug under the border with Egypt near Rafah, both in the south of Gaza, but no one was wounded.
An Israeli military spokesman told AFP that warplanes had "attacked four targets in the Gaza Strip in reply to the firing of a Grad rocket against the Beersheva sector" in Israel's Negev desert. "During these raids the aircraft spotted and attacked a group of terrorists who were preparing to fire other rockets" at Israel, he added. Israeli public radio said a second rocket had been fired at Beersheva, but it was not immediately clear where it landed.