Israeli F16 warplanes struck several targets in southern Gaza Strip and in Gaza city shortly after midnight on Thursday. No injuries were reported, witnesses said.

The witnesses said that the Israeli warplanes first struck tunnels that the Palestinians are using for smuggling under the borderline between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, adding that two tunnels were destroyed.

Another airstrike attacked Zeitoon neighborhood in southern Gaza City, and a third one was carried out on an underground weapon cache, said the witnesses, adding that ambulances rushed to the scene.

The Israeli airstrikes on Gaza is the second in two days, which came in response to rocket attacks on southern Israel carried out by militants from the Gaza Strip.