No casualties were reported but damage was caused to the building. Israeli officials said they conducted the strikes in response to an earlier rocket attack by militants that saw a kindergarten in southern Israel hit on Friday.
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The sources said the warplanes fired rockets at positions of Al-Qassam Brigades south of Gaza city, Bait Lahia and a metal workshop in Hey Al-Zaitoun as well as other locations in Bait Hanoun. Rocket attacks have been sporadic since Israel and Hamas waged a deadly 50-day war in the summer of 2014.
Both communities are located near the Gaza border.
The Quartet called for immediate steps to reverse three trends that it says are “severely undermining hopes for peace” – Israeli settlement construction and expansion; the Palestinians’ lack of unity and the illicit arms build-up and militant activity in Gaza; and continuing violence, “terrorist attacks” against civilians and incitement to violence.
On Friday, a Palestinian gunman ambushed a family traveling in a auto in the southern West Bank, killing an Israeli man and wounding his wife and two teenage children.
In one of several attacks in recent days, a 19-year-old Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old US-Israeli national in her home at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will reduce the amount of tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians each month, saying that some of the money was being given to families of attackers.
Violence since October has killed at least 214 Palestinians, 33 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.
Decrying the way the report by the Quartet – made up of the USA, the United Nations, the European Union, and Russian Federation – equates the Palestinian people and the Israeli occupiers, Madani said: “The report is not objective while describing Israel’s occupation and its illegal policies which hinder a political solution”.
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