The Israeli Air Force struck at terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that fell in southern Israel Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported today.

The IDF said in a statement that it targeted four sites of terror infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip in response to the rocket fire at southern Israel on Tuesday evening. The military said it confirmed direct hits.

“The reality that Hamas’s territory is used as a staging ground to attack Israel is unacceptable and intolerable and will bear consequences,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said in a statement.

It was reported yesterday that as many as five rockets were fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip. The rockets were reportedly fired by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as part of an internal disagreement.

Reuters added:

The Israeli military said it struck four “terror infrastructures” in the southern Gaza Strip and that hits were confirmed. There were no reports of any casualties or damage.

Gaza residents said missiles struck several locations throughout the Gaza Strip, including places used as training camps by Islamic Jihad militants on sites that had been Israeli settlements before Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

According to Reuters, the Tuesday rocket attack reached further into Israel than any other fire from Gaza since the end of Operation Protective Edge last summer.

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