GAZA: In response to rockets fired from the coastal enclave on Sunday, Israeli fighter jets launched a number of airstrikes on militant group sites in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian eyewitnesses said.

The witnesses said numerous explosions were heard west of the southern Gaza Strip communities of Khan Younis and Rafah, as well as Israeli army fighter jets and drones buzzing in the sky.

According to Palestinian medical sources, no injuries were reported during the attacks, which mostly targeted Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

An Israeli army spokesman said, the attacks were Israel's retaliation to the earlier launch of three rockets at southern Israel. No one group has taken ownership of the rocket launches.

Sources close to Hamas security said, during the airstrikes, militants in the Hamas-run coastal enclave also fired at least five rockets at southern Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip's borders. They also fired an anti-craft missile at Israeli fighter jets, the sources added.

Media outlets in Gaza quoted an Egyptian source as mentioning that Egyptian intelligence is in intensive contact with the Palestinian factions to avoid an escalation in Gaza.

Two strikes were reportedly carried out in the south of the enclave, one against a military training facility near Khan Younis and the other in an unpopulated area close to Rafah, according to security sources in Gaza.

Palestinian medical sources report that there were no injuries as a result of the strikes.

After killing the martyr Ammar Mufleh in Huwara yesterday, the Zionist enemy is again violently bombarding the Gaza Strip, according to a statement from Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem.

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