Israeli aircraft attacked a Hamas target in Gaza Thursday after a Palestinian rocket strike, the Israeli military said, in the first serious cross-border flare-up since a surge in fighting last month.
The latest hostilities followed Israel's closure of offshore waters to Gaza fisherman on Wednesday in what it said was a response to incendiary balloons launched across the frontier that caused fires in fields in southern Israel this week.
In a statement, the military said fighter planes attacked "underground infrastructure" in a compound belonging to Hamas. There were no reports of injuries.
The military said it was responding to a rocket fired from Gaza overnight that was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system.
In two days of heavy fighting in early May, projectiles from Gaza killed 25 Palestinians and four Israelis.
A truce mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations ended that round of violence.
Reuters
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