Avichai Adraee, the Israel Defence Forces’ spokesman to the Arab press, said that an Israeli tank had shelled a target of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip amid heightening tensions in the area, ONA reports quoting sputniknews.
"The tank has shelled a military target belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the north of Gaza in response to improvised explosive devices thrown [from the Palestinian side of the border] on the security barrier", Adraee wrote on Twitter.