Israel bombs a suspected weapons factory in the Gaza Strip

Israeli aircraft bombed a suspected Hamas weapons factory and border tunnel in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said.
No casualties were reported in the early morning attacks, part of Israel's month-long assault on Gaza to recover a captured soldier and end cross-border rocket attacks.

At least 150 Palestinians, around half of them gunmen, have been killed in the offensive.
An army spokeswoman said one of the targets overnight was a factory in Gaza City used by the Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls the Palestinian government, to manufacture and store arms.

The army said it also bombed a tunnel along the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafah.
Israel has rejected demands for a prisoner exchange by the gunmen who captured Corporal Gilad Shalit by tunnelling under the border on June 25. Some of the gunmen came from Hamas.