Two Palestinian civilians were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a metal workshop Saturday night in southern Gaza City, medics and witnesses said, dpa reported.
The witnesses said they heard two explosions as an Israeli army helicopter fired two missiles at a goldsmith shop in a two-storey building in the Zeitoon neighbourhood in southern Gaza City.
Black smoke was seen billowing from the flaming building, where firefighters and rescue crews rushed after the missile strikes.
Medics in Gaza City said that two bystanders were moderately injured and were taken to a hospital.
Security sources in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip said that police and security evacuated all police stations and security headquarters for fear of intensive Israeli retaliation to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants earlier Saturday against southern Israel.
Around noon, three Grad rockets were fired from eastern Gaza and landed near the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheba. No injuries were reported, and no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
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