Israel attacks Gaza City workshop

An Israeli helicopter missile strike has destroyed a Palestinian-owned metal workshop in Gaza City.

Palestinian medics said two bystanders were injured when at least one missile hit the building on Friday evening, creating a fireball.

The Israeli military said the workshop, which was reportedly empty at the time of the strike, was used to build bombs for the Hamas militant organisation.

Palestinian officials said it was a factory used for civilian purposes.

The building in the city's eastern Zeitoun district was owned by the family a young woman who blew herself up in a suicide bombing earlier this year.

Reem Raiyshi, a 22-year-old mother of two, killed herself, three Israeli soldiers and a private security guard in an attack in January at the Erez crossing checkpoint between Israel and Gaza.

Earlier on Friday, Palestinian militants fired makeshift rockets from Gaza at the Israeli town of Sderot, causing no casualties.

Sderot, a southern Israeli community near the Gaza border, has frequently come under fire from such rockets.

Such attacks are usually not deadly, but an Israeli man and boy died in such a rocket strike last month.