The Israeli military claims that its warplanes attacked “sites for launching rockets and producing weapons” in the Rafah area in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

It said in a statement that it continues to work with internal security agency Shin Bet in Rafah, having destroyed a tunnel in the past 24 hours that was used by Hamas.

An Israeli air strike also targeted “a terrorist ambush” in northern Gaza, the army added without providing any evidence. It again claimed that air strikes on central Gaza targeted a “weapons production site”.

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