The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has promised that Israel will
"pay a tremendous price" after eight militants were killed overnight
in Gaza.
The Israeli military said it had hit "terror sites and concealed
rocket launchers" in response to rocket and mortar fire from the coastal
territory.
Tensions have
risen since a Palestinian youth was killed in apparent reprisal for the murder
of three Israelis.
Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said Israeli
aircraft had targeted a "resistance location" in the southern city of
Rafah.
It initially said six of its members had died, but sources later told
the BBC that one man was still alive.
Lt Col Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, said the rocket fire
was "unacceptable".
"We will continue to act in order to debilitate and incapacitate
the Hamas terror infrastructure," he said.
He added that strikes would continue on "warehouses, rocket
manufacturing capabilities and those that endanger the well-being of the
Israelis in the south of the country".
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