GAZA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the enclave hit an Israeli border town. But Israel has a declared policy of responding militarily to any attack from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. “Today’s (rocket) attack ... is the direct result of Hamas’s terror agenda in the Gaza Strip that encourages deliberate attacks against Israeli civilians,” spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said in a statement. But small jihadist cells in the Gaza Strip occasionally fire rockets across the border. The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state in the occupied West Bank along with the Gaza Strip.

Source: Huffington Post October 05, 2016 18:22 UTC