ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated:
IAF aircraft struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons that were launched towards Israel earlier in the day, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement Thursday night.

"The IDF will respond strongly to terrorist attempts from the Gaza Strip," the statement reads.


A Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza which was damaged by IDF airstrikes, July 1, 2021.
A Hamas weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza which was damaged by IDF airstrikes, July 1, 2021. (Credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)


The components that were damaged in the strike were equipment for weapons research and development, the IDF said.
Earlier on Thursday, four fires broke out in several Jewish localities in the Eshkol Regional Council close to the Gaza Strip on Thursday as a result of incendiary balloons launched from within the Strip, Israeli media reported.  

Fire and rescue crews worked on the scene along with Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) to extinguish the fires.