• Published 10:37 24.11.09
  • Latest update 10:44 24.11.09

IDF planes attack Gaza arms depot and smuggling tunnels

The rocket attacks violated an agreement over the weekend by militant factions in Gaza to halt them.

By The Associated Press Tags: Israel Air Force Israel news

The Israel Air Force carried out three airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Monday, targeting a weapons-manufacturing facility and weapons smuggling tunnels.

The IDF said that the the aerial assaults came in response to two rockets Palestinian militants fired at southern Israel from Gaza a day earlier. No one was injured by the rocket fire.

The rocket attacks violated an agreement over the weekend by militant factions in Gaza to halt them.

Separately, Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers reported that two of the group's militants were killed when a rocket they were handling blew up prematurely

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