Israel has carried out air strikes on various infrastructures in the Gaza Strip in ‘retaliation’ to overnight rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave, its army has said.

The army also said that two rockets fired earlier from Gaza Strip were intercepted by the missile defense system known as “Iron Dome” and the other four landed in open areas. No damage or causalities reported.

No Gaza-based group claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks, but Israel said it holds Hamas, which rules the coastal territory, accountable.

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Palestinians ride a motorcycle past a mural depicting the Dome of the Rock on a street in Gaza City June 23, 2013.

Al-Jazeera