Israeli air raid on Gaza, no casualties – witnesses

Palestinian Hamas members inspect the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a Hamas compound already damaged in previous attacks in Gaza City on August 28, 2012. Israeli aircraft attacked three Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip, causing no injuries, eyewitnesses in the enclave said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories – Israel’s air force raided a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip overnight Sunday, without causing any injuries, witnesses said.

The target was in the Gaza refugee camp of Nusseirat.

In recent days, Palestinian activists have fired rockets into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, without any casualties, according to the Israeli army.

A radical Salafist splinter group has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.

Despite an informal truce between Hamas and Israel, tensions flare periodically on the Gaza-Israel border, with Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state and the Israeli military launching retaliatory air strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The last major flare-up was in June, when militants fired more than 150 rockets at southern Israel, wounding five people, and Israel hit back with air strikes that killed 15 Palestinians.