The Israeli military carried out airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday evening after launching incendiary balloons into its territory from the Palestinian enclave.
Fighter jets targeted "a Hamas-owned weapons manufacturing site in Khan Younes," the entrance to a tunnel in Jabalia, and an underground rocket launch site, "located near houses and a school. in Chejaya, ”a neighborhood in Gaza City, the IDF said in a statement.
The raids did not kill anybody but caused material damage, confirmed a Palestinian security source in the enclave.
According to her, Hamas fired at Israeli planes, without hitting them.
Machine gun fire at Israeli planes hit homes in the Israeli community of Sderot last week, causing damage.
The night strikes were a "response" to the fire of incendiary balloons carried out "all summer" by Hamas into Israeli territory, according to the IDF.
All summer, Hamas launched incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israel
Today, in response to Hamas attacks, we hit a site for weapons manufacturing, rocket launching and tunnels in Gaza
We will continue to fight all terrorist actions.
- IDF (@Tsahal_IDF) August 23, 2021
According to Israeli firefighters, called to the scene during the day Monday, the balloons only caused bushfires.
15-year-old killed
These strikes follow other Israeli raids overnight from Saturday to Sunday on Palestinian territory, targeting "four weapons manufacturing and storage sites" belonging to Hamas, according to the Israeli army. On Saturday during the day, protests along the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel had given rise to clashes. About 40 Palestinians were injured, according to Hamas, and one Israeli soldier seriously injured.
Confrontations are frequent. At dawn on Tuesday, a Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli army fire in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian health ministry, 15-year-old Imad Khaled Saleh Hashash was shot to the head and died of his wounds in Nablus hospital. The IDF said it opened fire on a "suspect on a roof who was holding a large object in his hands and trying to throw it at a soldier below the building."
The army was in the Balata camp, the largest in the occupied West Bank, in an operation to "apprehend a suspect" and during which the forces came under "live ammunition from rooftops" , “Throwing stones and objects”. The person "suspected of being involved in terrorist activities has been apprehended," the army said.
