Israel launches 3 air raids on Gaza

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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, June 25 (Agencies): Israel's air strikes over the Gaza Strip wounded a Palestinian as the captivity of one of its soldiers entered into the fourth year, Palestinian medical officials said Friday.
One Palestinian was injured when the warplanes launched three attacks on the town of Rafah, in the southern part of the territory close to the border with Egypt.
Nobody was hurt in the two other raids on the former airport and the town of Beit Hanun in the north.
"Our planes attacked an armoury in the north of the Gaza Strip and two tunnels used for gun running in the south" from Egypt, an Israeli spokesperson told AFP.
"The raids are a reaction to the shelling Thursday from the Gaza Strip of the western sector of the Negev desert" in southern Israel, she added.
A dozen mortar rounds were reported to have been fired from the Gaza Strip Thursday, with seven of them hitting Israel but none causing any casualties or damage.
However, the number of mortar attacks has dwindled significantly since Israel launched a devastating assault on the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave at the end of 2008 to put a stop to rocket fire.
The new warplane attack came as supporters of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier seized by Palestinian militants, held rallies in Tel Aviv to mark the fourth anniversary of his capture.
BBC said in 2006, the 23-year-old soldier was held in Gaza by Hamas militants who are demanding the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for his release.
Thousands are expected to rally outside the military headquarters in Tel Aviv calling for his release.
His parents plan to stage an 11-day cross-country march starting on Sunday.
Frustrated with failed attempts to free their son, Sgt Shalit's parents are beginning the long walk from their home in northern Israel to the prime minister's home in Jerusalem.
Militants from Hamas, the Palestinian organisation which controls Gaza, have also refused the International Red Cross access to Gilad Shalit - a stance that has been widely criticised in Israel and beyond.
Talks to free the soldier in return for a number of Palestinian prisoners broke down last year.
A New York-based global rights group Friday urged Hamas to free Gilad Shalit, ending what it called "cruel and inhuman treatment".
Hamas said the young soldier's prolonged incommunicado detention "may amount to torture."
The Islamist movement has said allowing outside access to Shalit could reveal his location to Israel.
HRW pointed out that Israel, for its part, has prevented detainees from the Gaza Strip from having family visits since Hamas seized power in the Palestinian territory in 2007.