Israeli aircraft hit several military targets for Gaza's Hamas rulers late Saturday after terrorists used a drone to drop a bomb on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israel perimeter fence.
"IDF fighter jets and an IDF aircraft recently struck a number of Hamas military targets, including offensive naval equipment and two military compounds belonging to Hamas' aerial unit in the northern and central Gaza Strip," which was responsible for the drone attack, the IDF said in a statement.
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There were no reports of Palestinian casualties.
Earlier in the evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened Hamas with a "vigorous response" for the drone attack.
This appeared to be the first attempt to carry out an attack with a drone piloted from Gaza. The IDF said the drone released "what seems to be an explosive device" and lightly damaged an army vehicle near the fence.
"Hamas is responsible for everything coming out of Gaza and all attacks will be met with a vigorous response," Netanyahu said in a statement.
Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007, is known to be developing a drone program and has used it before for reconnaissance missions over the border and into Israel.
Also Saturday, an Israeli father and son were stabbed near the town of Qalqilya in northern Judea and Samaria. Israeli medical services said that the 17-year-old was in serious but stable condition. The army said that the pair was attacked by a Palestinian and that soldiers were in pursuit.
On Friday, Israeli forces fatally shot two Gaza teenagers during regular weekly protests along the volatile perimeter fence.
The IDF said the more than 6,000 Palestinian demonstrators engaged in "especially violent" protests. It said that the protesters threw "a large amount of explosive devices, grenades and firebombs" and damaged parts of the border fence.
Israeli forces also detained two Palestinians who crossed the frontier into Israel.
In what seemed a response to the deaths, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired five rockets into southern Israel communities. There were no reports of injuries and no Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the rockets.
The UN envoy to the region, Nickolay Mladenov, condemned the shooting of the two teens, calling it "appalling." He wrote on Twitter that Israel "must calibrate its use of force, use lethal force only as a last resort, and only in response to an imminent threat of death or serious injury."
Mladenov also urged protesters to be peaceful and called for ending "the cycle of violence."
