Air Raids In Gaza Follow Rocket Attacks

Israeli aircraft launched three raids Saturday on targets in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera (Qatar) reports.

The airstrikes were a response to a rocket fired into Israel earlier that day and other attacks during the previous week, military officials said.

Two Palestinians were killed and three others wounded when the bombs collapsed a smuggling tunnel, said medical officials.

A former base of the armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was also destroyed, said the...