Israeli warplanes on Monday evening started to target different areas of the embattled Gaza Strip hours after a rocket from the coastal enclave hit a house and wounded seven Israelis.

The Israeli occupation army said it would launch large-scale aerial attacks on Gaza.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that sounds of explosions were rocking Gaza successively adding that the first airstrikes targeted a resistance post in northern Gaza Abu Mu’amar neighborhood in the east of Rafah and plots of land in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah.

Israeli warplanes early on Wednesday morning bombed different areas of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli occupation army claimed that a Palestinian rocket landed in Beersheba.

The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza said that the Israeli army launched several aerial attacks on resistance posts in the southern area of Gaza City Deir al-Balah in central Gaza Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza and Rafah as well as a cultivated plot of land in Khan Younis.

A health ministry official said that three citizens suffered injuries in the air raids on Rafah and were transferred to hospital for medical assistance.

The airstrikes caused panic among school students as they were going to their schools especially in Rafah area.

This Israeli military escalation took place after a rocket allegedly fired from Gaza hit a house in Beersheba.

An army spokesperson also claimed that another rocket from Gaza fell into the sea.