April 2, 2010 12:10 PM

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sraeli planes mount attacks across Gaza Strip

Israeli planes mounted attacks across Gaza Strip early this morning. According to Israeli media, Haaretz, an Israeli military spokesman confirming the attacks, said, they had targeted two weapons-manufacturing plants and two arms caches in response to a Palestinian short-range rocket that was fired across the border into Israel yesterday. The head of the Palestinian emergency services in Gaza has said that three children, were injured by flying glass in the raid on the Sabra district, in the western part of Gaza City. According to Maan news agency, the aircraft bombed three targets in Khan Younis including a site housing Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV network. In Gaza City, warplanes targeted the Daloul cheese and diary factory in the Sabra neighborhood. Aircraft fired two missiles at a police station in the Nusseirat refugee camp in addition to other sites in central Gaza, including a telecommunications company. Earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal this week to stop militants in the Gaza Strip from firing rockets against Israel.

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