This picture provided by Palestinian media shows the moment Israeli warplanes struck targets in southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2022.

Gaza City, December 4 (RHC)-- Israel's aircraft have targeted several positions in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, claiming that the new assault is in response to alleged rocket fire from the direction of the blockaded coastal sliver earlier on Saturday.

Various Palestinian media outlets reported the offensive early Sunday, identifying the targets as an area located west of the city of Khan Yunis and a farmland east of the city of Rafah.  The Israeli military, however, described the targets as sites belonging to the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement.  The Palestinian media also reported that resistance groups' anti-aircraft artillery confronted the Israeli raids in Khan Yunis, firing at the regime's aircraft.

In addition, Palestinian resistance groups fired five rockets from Gaza toward the occupied territories, two of which landed in an open area in Eshkol.

Al-Qassam Brigades, which is the military arm of Hamas, issued a statement later, saying: "Our air defenses responded at dawn today, Sunday, to the hostile Zionist warplanes in the skies of the Gaza Strip, with surface-to-air missiles."