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Israeli air strikes on Gaza wound one Palestinian

GAZA, April 21 (KUNA) -- Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on locations in Gaza strip on Monday a few hours after a salvo of missiles targeted southern Israel.
The warplanes struck locations in Al-Nusairat area in the center of the strip, according to local radio stations. In another air strike, the aircraft fired a lone air-to-surface missile targeting a military training site in Dair Al-Balah town, wounding one Palestinian and inflicting some damage.
The air attacks came shortly after Palestinian gunners fired four missiles from northern Gaza in direction of southern Israel. A spokesman of the Israeli Army said they crashed into an uninhabited location near the town of Sderot, situated northeast of the strip, indicating that the missile attack caused no losses.
However, sirens blared in Sderot and other Israeli settlements, towns and outposts in southern Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli bomb disposal experts collected remains of the blown-up rockets.
No claim of responsibility for the missile salvo attack has been made so far.
Elsewhere, Palestinian fighters targeted with an anti-armor rocket an Israeli Army jeep close to the fence line around Gaza. Witnesses said the assault took place on fringes of Dair Al-Balah town, located in the center of the Palestinian enclave.
The attackers retreated safely after firing the rocket, despite a hail of retaliatory gunfire, unleashed by the Israeli military forces. The intensive shooting resulted in thick black smoke that engulfed the scene of the attack.
The Israeli gunfire set alight a nearby cultivated field close to the separation line, the witnesses said. (end) mzt.rk