(JNS) The Israeli Air Force struck terrorist targets adjacent to, but not in, a humanitarian route in Gaza from where Hamas fired two rockets at Tel Aviv on Tuesday, August 13, the IDF said.

The airstrikes in Khan Yunis were carried out outside of the humanitarian route, the IDF emphasized.

In the terrorist group’s first attack targeting Tel Aviv since May, one rocket hit in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of central Israel, and the other fell short inside the Strip.

“The Hamas terrorist organization continues to deliberately embed its military assets used to carry out attacks against Israel next to humanitarian infrastructure and the civilian population inside the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said on Wednesday morning.