WorldGAZA CITY, AFP -Israel said Monday its forces carried out dozens of air and tank strikes in Gaza on Sunday in response to a rocket that hit a southern Israeli town. “We conducted strikes against several dozen targets in the Gaza Strip” on Sunday, an army spokeswoman told AFP. A spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Israel “carries responsibility for the escalation in the Gaza Strip and this new aggression will not succeed” in weakening the movement. Since January, 14 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israeli territory, the military said. On July 2, Israeli air raids hit four sites in Gaza after a rocket struck a building in Sderot.

Source: Sunday Times August 22, 2016 12:56 UTC