Israel strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after Iron Dome intercepts rocket fire

The IDF struck several Hamas targets in northern Gaza on Sunday after a rocket fired from the strip was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system.

Earlier on Sunday an Israeli military helicopter attacked two Hamas positions after a cluster of balloons and a drone-like glider were launched from Gaza, Haaretz reports.

The items landed in a carrot field in the Sdot Negev region of southern Israel shortly before noon, local time.

The army said: “IDF attack helicopters struck two military positions belonging to the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip in response to the balloon-borne explosive device, which was launched by a model drone.”