Explosions Rock Gaza, Israel Says It Hit Hamas Rocket Factory

Explosions Rock Gaza, Israel Says It Hit Hamas Rocket Factory
The Israeli army carries out retaliatory air strikes against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Aug. 16, in response to firebombs sent into Israeli territory attached to balloons. SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images
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GAZA—Several explosions rocked the Gaza Strip early on Monday, according to a Reuters witness, as Israel’s military said it attacked an underground site used by the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas Islamists to manufacture rockets.

The air strikes, in which there was no immediate word of casualties, followed what Israel described as its shooting down over the weekend of a rocket that had been fired over the border from Gaza. There was no Palestinian claim for that launch.