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Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Israel Defense Forces conducted air raids early Sunday in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian rockets were fired from the region toward southern Israel. The IDF tweeted that three rockets were fired from Gaza and two were intercepted by its Iron Dome Aerial Defense System and hours later Israel deployed fighter jets and attack helicopters to the region in response.
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No Palestinian groups took responsibility for the rocket fire but, Israel said the Islamist militant group launched the missiles.
"Hamas is responsible for what is happening in and out of the Gaza Strip and it will bear the consequences for actions against Israeli citizens," the Israeli military said.
The air raids struck several targets associated with Hamas including a camp and a naval position in the northern Gaza Strip, IDF said.
Israel's defense minister, Naftali Bennett, warned that the nation would seek to move from a "defensive approach to an attacking approach" on the Gaza Strip.
"Whatever we'll do -- we'll do it at the right time -- in the right way and with great power," Bennett said. "No one will drag us to it. A good ruse is served cold, not when the blood is boiling and the other side waits of it."
Last month, rocket fire was also exchanged between Israel and the Gaza Strip after an Islamic Jihad commander in Northern Gaza and his wife were killed in a strike on his bedroom.
