Israeli fighter jets have bombarded at least two sites in the Gaza Strip shortly after a Thai agricultural worker was killed when a rocket fired from the besieged coastal enclave struck the northern Negev.
The eyewitnesses said Israeli F-16 fighter jets targeted an open area north of the Gaza City. The warplanes also fired missiles at an open area in the central Gaza Strip.
One of the warplanes broke the sound barrier in the skies of northern and central Gaza Strip, causing panic through the crowd, especially women and children.
Staff members of multiple Palestinian organizations had to evacuate their buildings in fear of their lives following the airborne assaults. There were no reports of casualties in the incident.
A migrant worker in the northern Negev was killed when a rocket fired by Palestinian fighters from the Gaza Strip hit the greenhouse where he was working.
The rocket struck Moshav Nativ Ha'asara Thursday morning, killing the 30-year-old Thai worker.
This is the third rocket fired from Gaza in the past 24 hours. Five rockets have struck southern Israel in the past two days, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade - the armed wing of the Fatah movement - claimed responsibility for the Thursday rocket launch.
The resistance movement said the projectile was fired in response to new Israeli plans for the construction of more Jewish housing in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in the predominantly Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem al-Quds, and the decision to renovate a synagogue in the Old City near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
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