According to the army, the Israeli air force bombed two targets in Gaza on Sunday after Gazans battled with border guards and shot incendiary balloons into southern Israel.
According to the Israeli army, "fighter jets struck a Hamas military compound used for manufacturing weapons and training as well as an entrance to a terror tunnel adjacent to Jabalia,"
"The strikes were in response to Hamas launching incendiary balloons into Israeli territory and the violent riots that took place yesterday," it stated in a statement.
Both occurrences, according to the army, are "examples of how Hamas continues to employ terror tactics and target civilians."
The Israeli strikes did not result in any injuries in the Gaza Strip, according to reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he held Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas responsible for any violence in the Palestinian territory while speaking in Washington with US President Joe Biden.
Before boarding an aircraft returning to Israel, he told reporters, "As I have already said, our actions in Gaza will serve our interests,"
"As far as I'm concerned, the address (of those responsible) has been and remains Hamas."
Stun grenades and tear gas
Two wildfires broke out in the Eshkol district near the Palestinian territory on Saturday evening, according to Israeli firefighters.
Later in the day, protests erupted, with the Israeli army firing tear gas and stun grenades as Palestinians torched tires on the Gaza-Israel border, according to an AFP reporter.
The Gaza health ministry said that 11 Palestinians were injured in the fighting, three of whom were hit by live fire.
Omar Hassan Abu al-Nile, 12, who died of his wounds a week after being wounded by Israeli forces during border confrontations, was laid to rest by Gazans earlier Saturday.
Gazans initiated a protest movement in 2018 calling for an end to Israel's blockade and the right for Palestinians to return to the territories they fled or were exiled from when the Jewish state was established in 1948.
The Hamas-backed weekly protests faltered as Israel killed more than 350 Palestinians in the region over the course of a year.
In May, Hamas and Israel fought deadly 11-day combat, the bloodiest in years between the two sides, which ended with an unofficial truce.
In the months since Israel has blamed Hamas for the persistent use of incendiary balloons from Gaza.
At the same time, Israel has begun loosening restrictions on civilian life and commerce in the Gaza Strip, which it has been blockading since Hamas took authority in 2007.
