Israeli aircraft strikes Hamas site in Gaza after rocket fire

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Israeli aircraft targeted a Hamas facility in the northern Gaza Strip early Monday, hours after two rockets fired from the Palestinian enclave struck southern Israel, the army said.

"In response to the rockets launched towards southern Israel, IAF (Israel air force) aircraft targeted a Hamas training compound in the northern Gaza Strip," a statement from the military said. "In the compound three structures and other terror infrastructure were targeted."

There were no reports of injuries from the health ministry in Gaza.

A Palestinian man gestures as he stands in front of his house that was damaged in an Israeli airstrike on a nearby Hamas site, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 13, 2017.

On Sunday night, two projectiles fired from Gaza struck southern Israel, with one damaging a home in a border town.

Another projectile flew short of its target and hit Gaza, the army said.

The attacks on Sunday ended a three-day lull in the latest wave of rocket fire amid anger over US President Donald Trump's December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Militants in the Palestinian enclave have fired both rockets and mortar rounds into Israel since Trump's deeply controversial announcement.

Trump's announcement was followed by protests across the Palestinian territories, with six Gazans killed -- four in clashes with Israeli forces along the border and two Hamas militants in an Israeli air strike in retaliation for rocket fire.

Members of Palestinian Hamas security forces survey the scene of an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, December 12, 2017.

The rockets are often fired by small Islamist groups but Israel holds Hamas, which has been ruling Gaza, responsible for any attacks from the territory.

"The IDF (Israel defense forces) holds the Hamas accountable for this hostile act originating from the Gaza Strip," the statement from the military read.

(AFP)