Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza

The Israeli Air Force has attacked the southern Gaza Strip, enlisting the services of military aircraft and unmanned spy planes, a report says.

The warplanes carried out airstrikes near the city of Khan Younis in the south, bombarding a chicken farm on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. The aircraft, he said, continue to fly over the city.

Israeli planes also attacked the city of Rafah, also in the south, targeting the tunnels beneath Gaza’s border with Egypt.

There have so far been no reports of human or material losses from the attacks. The Israeli military has not confirmed the airstrikes.

The tunnels are used to bring in direly-needed supplies as Tel Aviv keeps up its mid 2007-present siege of the coastal sliver, depriving 1.5-million Gazans of food, fuel and other necessities.

Tel Aviv has repeatedly pounded Gaza since it took the strip under all-out onslaughts in the Operation Cast Lead at the turn of 2009, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion on the enclave’s economy.