Israeli forces entered eastern Gaza city at noon Saturday amid heavy shooting from Apache helicopters that accompanied the tanks, witnesses said.
The witnesses added that three bulldozers, backed by four tanks, started to raze installations in the industrial zone near Karni commercial crossing in the east of Gaza city.
Residents in the area said that helicopters opened machine gunfire to provide cover for the forces on the ground while school children threw stones at the tanks.
Palestinian fighters, carrying mines and RPG launchers, have started to arrive in the place to face the sudden incursion.
Earlier, the Israeli army rolled into the eastern parts of central Gaza Strip and clashed with Palestinian militants before withdrawing in the morning, residents of al-Maghazi and al-Burij refugee camps said.
Meanwhile, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) claimed responsibility for launching a home-made rocket into southern Israeli city of Sderot.
"The rocket attack was in response to the Israeli crimes in Gaza Strip and West Bank," the brigades said in a statement emailed to the media.
Source: Xinhua
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