Gaza - Ma'an - At least 12 Palestinians were wounded as Israeli F16  warplanes struck the southern Gaza Strip on Friday night.

Local  sources said Israeli warplanes launched three attacks near the ruins of  the Gaza airport.

Medics said 12 people wounded people were  transported to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital in the city of Rafah. Three  people were moderately injured while the rest were only slightly hurt,  they added.

Israeli warplanes were still heard flying over the  Gaza Strip at the time this report was filed.

The bombing was the  second aerial attack in less than 24 hours. Early on Friday morning  Israel’s air force bombed six targets across the strip, including open  areas near Khan Younis, a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border, and a  factory. No one was reported injured. Palestinian militias also said  they clashed with Israeli forces east of Gaza City on Thursday evening.

Those  strikes came after a homemade projectile fired from Gaza killed a Thai  agricultural worker in an Israeli community near the city of Ashkelon.  It was the first fatality from a Gaza projectile since the end of  Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza in 2008 and 2009 which killed some  1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

The attack into Israel was  claimed by two groups: the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah,  and Jund Ansar As-Sunna, a little-known hard line Islamist organization.  Both groups are at odds with Gaza's Hamas-run government, which has  successfully enforced a ceasefire with Israel since the end of the war  in 2009.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack,  stressing that all acts of violence are "totally unacceptable."

"All  such acts of terror and violence against civilians are totally  unacceptable and contrary to international law," a representative said  in statement issued in Moscow, where the secretary-general met other  members of the international Quartet of peace brokers on Friday.

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