#news Israeli warplanes strike southern Gaza, no injuries

GAZA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Israeli F16 warplanes carried out on Saturday night two successive airstrikes on southern Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported, witnesses, medical and security sources said.

The witnesses said the first airstrike was on the village of Abassan east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, while no injuries were reported. The F16 warplanes hovered over the southern area of the Gaza Strip and fired at least one rocket at a farm cultivated with olives in the village. The rocket caused damages to the trees, while no injuries were reported.

The warplanes struck again an underground smuggling tunnel under the borders between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, said Palestinian security sources, adding that the tunnel collapsed, but no injuries were reported.

Medical sources at southern Gaza Strip hospitals said that ambulances rushed to the two areas, but no injuries were reported.

The Israeli airstrike on the village of Abassan and on the tunnel area came hours after unknown militants fired earlier on Saturday a homemade rocket from Gaza at southern Israel. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that the rocket landed on an empty area in southern Israel causing no damages or injuries.

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