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Fifteen people were wounded early Wednesday after the Air Force struck targets in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The wounded were taken to hospitals in the area for treatment. Meanwhile, no injuries were reported in another aerial strike, this time targeting an airport in the southern Gaza Strip.

The IDF's Spokesman's office confirmed that the Air Force attacked two terror tunnels in the northern and southern Strip.

"The tunnels were dug about a kilometer away from the border fence, and were meant to enable terrorists to infiltrate Israeli territory and carry out terror attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers," the army said. IDF officials stressed that the Gaza attacks came in response to fire directed at Israel Tuesday. Four mortar shells were fired from the northern Gaza Strip at Israeli territory, causing no injuries or damage.

"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers, and will continue to operate with determination and force against any element that utilizes terror against the State of Israel," the army said.

"The IDF holds the Hamas terror organization solely responsible for what goes on in the Strip and for maintaining the quiet there."

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At least 17 people were wounded Monday in a pair of airstrikes launched by the Israel Defense Forces in retaliation for mortar shells fired into Israel from Gaza. No injuries were reported in an airstrike near Gaza International Airport in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Hamas police said, but a medical source at Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in northern Gaza said 17 people were wounded in a second strike in the city of Beit Hanoun in the northeast of Gaza.

Five of the injured were militants and two of the 17 were critically wounded, the source said.

The IDF said the airstrikes targeted two tunnels used by militants. Both were a kilometer away from the security fence that separates Israel and Gaza. The strikes, the IDF said, were "in response to the firing of two mortar shells" into Israel.

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