Israeli F-16 warplanes on Wednesday afternoon struck the borderline zone between southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and Egypt with air-to-ground rockets, witnesses and security sources said.
Security sources of the Islamic Hamas movement, the democratically elected government in Gaza, said Israeli warplanes hovered over the area and carried out two separate airstrikes, hitting the area where there are hundreds of underground tunnels used for smuggling food, medicine and other essential goods from Egypt into Gaza in an attempt to circumvent the illegal Israeli blockade.
Witnesses said that they heard the buzz of the Israeli warplanes and then they suddenly heard two successive explosions in the area of the borders between Rafah town and Egypt.
Gaza emergency chief Mo'aweya Hassanein told reporters that four Palestinians were wounded in the two successive Israeli airstrikes, adding they were moderately injured.
On Dec. 27 of 2008, the Israeli army carried out a large-scale 22-day military assault on innocent and defenseless citizens of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and destroying thousands of houses and government constructions.
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