The early morning air strikes targeted two training camps
belonging to the Islamist group Hamas, causing no injuries, officials
and witnesses said.
Gaza militants fired at least two rockets into Israel late on
Friday, Israeli military said. One struck the border town of Sderot,
damaging a bus but causing no injuries. A second was shot down by a
missile defense system, the military said.
A Palestinian group that supports the Islamic State
claimed responsibility for one of the rockets fired at Israel. No-one
claimed responsibility for the second rocket attack.
The cross-border violence comes as tensions remain high in
Jerusalem and the West Bank, where Israeli security forces and
Palestinians have clashed over the past week.
In London, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged calm
and called on all sides to exercise restraint amid violence in recent
days around Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, a sacred site revered by Muslims
as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount.
Kerry said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu who had made it clear that "he is completely supportive of the
status quo and deeply committed to preventing any kind of incident that
will incite."
"All parties need to refrain from incitement and refrain from engaging
in activities that put that relationship at risk," Kerry said following
talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on conflicts in
Syria, Yemen, Libya and Ukraine.
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