Israelis hit back at Gaza rocket-launching pads

Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a militant group’s charity and a rocket-launching ground in the northern Gaza Strip today, in the first aerial attack on Gaza in more than a month, the military said.

The military said the Islamic Jihad charity was a front for the disbursement of payments to the families of dead militants and other terror-related activity. Missiles also hit open fields where home-made rockets had been launched in recent days, it said.