19 Sep 2015

Israel responds to Palestinian attack

4:03 pm on 19 September 2015

Palestinian extremists in Gaza have fired two rockets into southern Israel, causing no casualties but triggering a series of Israeli air raids.

One of the rockets hit a parked bus in the town of Sderot, while the Israeli army said the second was destroyed by its "Iron Dome" defence system over the town of Ashkelon.

Israeli warplanes then bombed a base of the military wing of Hamas in northern Gaza.

No one was hurt in the rocket attacks or the air raids.

-Reuters