GAZA, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli army war jets and drones carried out early on Saturday three successive airstrikes on Hamas military facilities in central and northern Gaza Strip with no injuries reported, local media and security sources in Gaza said.

Local media in Gaza city reported that while Israeli war jet and drones had been hovering over Gaza and firing missiles at military facilities, Gaza gunmen fired three makeshift rockets into southern Israel.

The Israeli airstrikes on Gaza were in response to earlier hand grenades attacks against an Israeli army force in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on the border with Israel.

Clashes in eastern Gaza between Palestinians and Israeli army forces were resumed Friday as part of the rallies and protests called "the Great March of Return and Breaking the Israeli Siege," which had been organized since March 30.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 137 Palestinians have been killed and more than 16,000 have been injured since March 30. Enditem