JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says its aircraft struck two factories in Gaza and a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Sunday.

Palestinian medics say the air assault wounded at least seven people. 

The Israeli military said the air attack was in response to a rocket fired Saturday by Palestinian militants into southern Israel.  The rocket caused no injuries or damage.

The air assault comes one day after Hamas said it had reached a deal with other Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip to stop firing rockets on southern Israel.

Hamas’s Interior Minister Fathi Hamad told reporters Saturday the deal aims to prevent Israeli retaliatory attacks on Gaza and to make it easier for Palestinians to rebuild sites destroyed during Israel’s offensive nearly a year ago.

But Hamas said militants have the freedom to respond if Israel sends troops into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Some 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during Israel’s three-week military offensive in Gaza that ended in January.  Israel says it launched the military campaign to stop Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish state.

Rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel have decreased dramatically since the offensive ended. 

Source:  VOA News