Israeli air raid hits Gaza after rocket attack: Army

Israel carried out an airstrike on the Gaza Strip early on Monday in response to a Palestinian rocket attack from the territory, an Israeli army statement said. 

The Israeli Air Force plane hit a Hamas site in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the statement. 

The rocket was fired into southern Israel late on Sunday, but hit open ground, the army said. No casualties were reported on either side.

The tit-for-tat attacks across the Gaza border came amid widespread clashes in the West Bank on Sunday between Israeli security forces and Palestinians.

An 18-year-old was shot dead by Israeli soldiers and nearly 80 Palestinians were injured in the fighting that started after Israel prohibited Palestinians from entering Jerusalem's Old City.  

The military said that so far this year 16 rockets have been launched at Israel from Gaza. 

On 30 September, Israeli warplanes hit four training camps of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave that was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system.

The camps were empty at the time and nobody was injured.

Militants claiming links to the Islamic State group have said they were behind recent rocket fire from Gaza, but Israel holds Hamas, which runs Gaza, responsible for all such incidents.

Israel's assault on Gaza last summer left some 2,200 Palestinians dead and more than 100,000 homeless. Sixty seven Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed in the fighting.