Israeli Jets Bomb Multiple Gaza Strip Sites

Israeli aircraft have struck multiple targets in the Gaza Strip following a rocket attack on southern Israel.

No injuries were reported.

The Israeli military says aircraft struck four targets early Friday: two weapons-making factories and two weapons-storage facilities.

Hamas security officials say 10 sites were hit: a cheese factory, a movie-making complex built by the territory's Islamic militant Hamas rulers and open areas where militants train.

The military said the air strikes came in response to a rocket attack Thursday, which caused no injuries.

A string of recent Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel has ratcheted up tensions. Last year, Israel conducted a bruising war in Gaza after years of rocket attacks.

U.S.-backed "road map" peace talks between Israel and Palestinian leaders in the West Bank disintegrated in the wake of the war.

The Obama administration has been trying to restart the negotiations, even on an indirect basis using international mediators, but has met little success amid tension between Washington and Israel over the Jewish state's plans to expand settlement construction in contested East Jerusalem.

According to a poll released earlier this week, almost half of Israelis think the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United States in decades.