GAZA: Israeli airplanes carried out a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding at least two civilians, witnesses and medical sources said.

The targets included a smuggling tunnel beneath Gaza's southern border with Egypt, an empty house in the nearby Rafah city, an open land and a house in northern Gaza Strip, the witnesses said.

A four-year-old girl and a man suffered minor injuries in the airstrike near the house in northern town of Beit Lahiya, Adham Abu Selmia, an emergency spokesperson told reporters, reports Xinhua news agency.

F-16 jets and helicopters participate in carrying out at least five raids.

The Israeli raids came a day after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets on southern Israel territories. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, apparently to avoid frictions with Gaza's Hamas rulers who always seek to stay calm.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Gaza on Thursday and called for maintaining the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian groups.

- Bernama