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Israel strikes in Gaza after Palestinians fire projectiles

Israel strikes in Gaza after Palestinians fire projectiles

Gaza city attack

Israeli aircraft struck Hamas positions inGazaearly Wednesday, the military said,afterPalestinians in the enclave launchedprojectilesandexplosiveballoonsat the Jewish state.

The "fighter jets targeted Hamas terror targets in the southernGazaStrip" including "a weapons manufacturing site", the army said in a statement.

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There were no immediate reports fromGazaof casualties.

Prior to the Israeli attack, militants inGazalaunched threeprojectilesand a number of "explosiveballoons" at southernIsrael, the army said, with neither medics nor police reporting casualties or damage.

Since US President Donald Trump's announcement last week of his plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rockets, mortar shells andexplosiveballoonshave been launched almost daily fromGazainto southernIsrael, provoking Israeli retaliation.

Palestinians strongly reject the US plan, seen as heavily favouringIsrael.

Hamas andIsraelhave fought three wars since 2008 but over the past year the Islamists have gradually shaped an informal truce withIsrael, under which the Jewish state has eased its crippling blockade ofGaza.