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Israeli warplanes early Thursday carried out two raids on the north and centre of the Gaza Strip.

16 February,2012 10:55 am

It was allegedly followed by a rocket attack on southern Israel, an army spokeswoman said.The attacks, which came after an Israeli police spokesman said three rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip without claiming victims, were aimed at centres of terrorist activity, the army spokeswoman said.Since the beginning of the year some 20 rockets have been fired at southern Israel from the Palestinian enclave controlled by the militant Hamas movement, according to the Israeli army.Hamas has maintained a tacit truce with Israel but other armed groups in the Gaza Strip regularly fire rockets at Israel, with reprisal raids usually following.