Israel aircraft attack Hamas targets after rocket fired from Gaza

Smoke rises following what police said was an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding at least four people, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory hit an empty area in southern Israel.

The Israeli military said its planes attacked five positions belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, in response to the rocket strike.