At least seven Palestinians have been injured in a round of Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that the first strike hit a metal workshop in the al-Tufah district of Gaza city early on Sunday, while the second struck a workshop in al-Burij in central Gaza.
The Israeli army confirmed the strikes and said "it was targeting two factories used to make weapons, as well as a smuggling tunnel under the border" with Egypt.
Dozens of tunnels are said to criss-cross between southern Gaza and Egypt's Sinai desert, providing a lifeline to Gaza residents who are starved of basic supplies due to Israel's blockade of the territory.
The strikes on Sunday came just hours after Hamas said it had reached an agreement with other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, to stop firing rockets into Israeli towns.
Fathi Hamad, the interior minister for Hamas, made the announcement on Saturday.
He said the move was aimed at preventing such retaliatory attacks to allow Gazans to rebuild the homes destroyed during Israel's three-week war on Gaza.
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A Palestinian man inspects damage following Israeli air strikes on smuggling tunnels in Rafah on the border southern Gaza and Egypt.
Al-Jazeera