The Israeli aircraft bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, Israel’s military said.The air force carried out strikes in the Gaza Strip which came in response to continued launches of arson balloons from the coastal enclave into the Jewish state.

However, there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the attack that aimed what the Israeli military said was a rocket launching site and a compound belonging to Hamas, the political group that governs Gaza.

Since a May 21 ceasefire ended 11 days of Israel-Hamas fighting, Palestinians in Gaza have intermittently launched balloons laden with incendiary material across the border, causing fires that have burned fields in Israel. Most of the rockets were intercepted by Israel's anti-rocket Iron Dome defence system, and the rest landed in open areas. The rockets, fired at the Israel-occupied Golan Heights and the Galilee Panhandle area in northern Israel, did not cause casualties.

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