Israel Attacks Gaza With Warplanes

Israeli warplanes have attacked sites in the Gaza Strip after a rocket landed in southern Israel.

The Israeli military said the air raids in the early hours of Sunday targeted a weapons manufacturing facility and an underground tunnel belonging to Hamas, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The air attack on Gaza follows outrage over the shooting at point-blank range of a young Palestinian man, by an Israeli soldier in broad daylight on Friday.

The incident has sparked widespread anger among Palestinians and calls on social media to escalate resistance against the Israeli occupation.

The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the shooting as tantamount to an execution, and Palestinian activists called for a response to crimes by Israeli forces.

Also, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, released a statement saying he was “greatly concerned about the increasing level of violence in the occupied West Bank”.

At least 207 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem so far this year, according to Al Jazeera.