MEMO: Israeli airstrikes kill 1, injure 3 in Gaza

Palestinians survey the damage to an animal farm after an Israeli airstrike eastof Gaza City, Feb. 12, 2012. An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed a 69-year-old civilan on Sunday, hospital officials said, and the military described the operation as retaliation for a cross-border rocket launch.(REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) February 12, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes killed an elderly man in the central Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, in a series of airstrikes across Gaza that injured three others. Palestinian medics said 69-year-old Abdul-Karim Az-Zaytouna was killed and two others were injured when warplanes bombed steel sheds near the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Israeli terrorist forces also targeted sites in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring one near Khan Younis when a missile landed in an open area. A house belonging to the Imteir family was shelled east of Rafah, causing severe damage, but no reported injuries. An Israeli military statement said the strikes targeted a "terror tunnel and a weapon manufacturing facility in the northern Gaza Strip, a terror tunnel in the central Gaza Strip and an additional terror tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip." It said the strikes were in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that caused light injuries to a woman when it hit Israel's Hof Ashkelon district on Saturday.