Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing one elderly Palestinian and injuring two others, a Palestinian health official said Sunday.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) added that the fatality was a 71-year-old farmer, Eyad Abdul Hadi Rajab, whose animal farm in the outskirts of Gaza City, some 3 kilometres from the border with Israel, was hit by an Israeli missile.
It said the farmer had been in his room, which was destroyed, while his son sustained severe bruises throughout the body. Animals and birds in the farm were also killed and equipment damaged.
The Israeli military said it bombed or rocketed a total of four targets shortly before midnight - three tunnels dug by militants in the north, centre and south of the strip, and what it said was a weapons manufacturing workshop in northern Gaza.
It said the airstrikes were in retaliation at rockets fired at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Saturday. An Israeli woman was lightly injured in that attack.