Gaza City (CNN) -- Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the day.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strikes targeted three locations in Gaza: a Hamas "terror-activity site" in the north, a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza and a weapons smuggling tunnel in Rafah.
The first strike around 11:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) hit a runway near the compound of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which is now occupied by Hamas, according to a CNN stringer at the scene. Hamas security forces reported eight people wounded from the strike.
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