Israel has targeted several sites in Gaza after the military claimed Palestinian militants had fired rockets into the south of the country.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Israeli planes had hit three Hamas targets including a rocket manufacturing facility, underground infrastructure and a military post.
“Hamas will bear the brunt of the horrors of Gaza,” the force said in a tweet.
Palestinian media reported that the airstrikes broke windows on the east side of Gaza City. There were no casualties.
Sirens had sounded earlier in the southern port city of Ashkelon and the area around the Gaza Strip, according to military reports.
“Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory,” an army statement said Friday, adding that they were overrun by the Iron Dome air defense system.
There were no reports of damage as a result of the comments.
Volleys of missiles from the air defense system lit up the sky in the northern Gaza Strip as they tried to hit the incoming rockets.
Israeli emergency medical services said a few people had been treated for panic.
A Palestinian group in Gaza has not claimed responsibility for the rocket fire.
The latest fire came from a Palestinian enclave controlled by Hamas more than a month after a rocket was fired from a coastal strip into Israel.
Hamas, considered an Israeli terrorist organization, seized control of Gaza from the rival Palestinian movement Fatah in 2007 in a impending civil war. Hamas has since fought three devastating wars with Israel in the coastal region where about 2 million Palestinians live.
Israel has since maintained a strong crackdown on the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas from arming.
The Associated Press