Israel and Islamic Jihad exchanged
fire in the
Gaza Strip for a second day Monday, a week before the Jewish state's March 2 election.
Islamic Jihad, a militant group allied to Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas, fired more than 20 rockets and mortars towards Israel late morning, the
Israeli military said, with the majority intercepted by the country's air defence systems.
Israeli fighter jets and helicopters then targeted a number of Islamic Jihad bases in the strip, including "a military compound in Khan Yunis used by the Islamic Jihad for training and weapons storage," the army said, referring to an area in southern Gaza.