Israel targets Gaza weapons facilities

Israel warned residents to leave the buildings before the air strikes to try to avoid civilian casualties.

One of the targeted warehouses was being used by the Islamic Jihad militant group to manufacture and store missiles and ammunition, the Israeli army said. Palestinian sources confirmed that the group had been using the storage site.

Israel also hit a facility used by Hamas to make rockets, the army said.

In its more than three-week operation against militants in Gaza, the Israeli military has killed around 115 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians.

Three Palestinians were killed and three others injured Monday after an Israeli tank fired on a building in the town of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.

A shell from the tank hit a high-rise building in Beit Lahiya, not far from Gaza's border with Israel.

Earlier, two Palestinian were wounded by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, including an air strike on a house of a member of the radical Islamic Jihad movement, security sources said.