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February 10, 2020, 04:06 AM – latest revision February 10, 2020, 04:31 AM
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Residents inspect destroyed sewage pipes following overnight Israeli missile strikes along the beach of Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020
Tensions between Jewish state and Palestinian enclave have steadily increased in recent weeks
An Egyptian delegation arrived in Gaza on Monday seeking to ease tensions, a Hamas security source said, after Israel again attacked the enclave with air strikes in response to projectiles fired by militants.
Egypt has long served as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip, but further details on the latest visit were not immediately available.
Israel’s army said in a statement that early on Monday its “aircraft and fighter jets targeted a number of Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip.”
A Hamas “training compound and military infrastructures” were among the targets, the army added.
There were no reports from Gaza of casualties or damage.
On Sunday night, a projectile was launched from Gaza at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens and sending thousands to bomb shelters.
A spokeswoman for the regional council in Shaar Hanegev, northeast of Gaza, said the projectile apparently hit an open field.
At least eight rockets or mortars have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel since January 28 when US President Donald Trump released his vision for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the Israeli army.
Israel has struck back each time, with no Israelis or Palestinians so far reported injured.
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