Israel strikes Gaza after rocket fire

Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon yesterday warned that Israel would respond to any attacks on its territory and not allow its people to come under fire "in any form".
His warning was issued after militants in Gaza fired a rocket at southern Israel, and as a Syrian mortar shell and small arms fire hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights.
The Israeli military was quick to respond in both cases, with a tank firing back across the Syrian armistice line towards the source of fire and the air force mounting three air strikes on Gaza, in the first such raids in more than four months.
"We shall not allow in any form the establishment of a routine of sporadic firing at our civilians or our forces," Yaalon said in remarks communicated from his office.
Yaalon said Gaza's Hamas rulers were responsible for any fire directed at Israel from the coastal enclave, and in the same way, President Bashar al-Assad's regime was to blame for whatever fire emanated from Syria.