Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations         　

    GAZA, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Israeli F16 warplanes hovered on Saturday night on the Gaza Strip and hit targets belong to Islamic Hamas movement as well as makeshift rockets workshops and roads, witnesses and security sources said.

    The witnesses said that Israeli F16 warplanes destroyed the main road of Sallah el-Dein in northern Gaza Strip that leads to the towns of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia, adding that the roads were destroyed and no injuries were reported.

    Security sources of Hamas in Gaza said that an Israeli air-to-ground rocket destroyed a metal workshop in northern Gaza City, which Israel says to be used in manufacturing homemade rockets fired at Israel.

    The sources also said that Israeli warplanes bombarded al-Noor social organization in Gaza City that belongs to Hamas movement, adding that severe destruction was caused to the building.

    The residents of Gaza City said they still hear the buzzes of helicopters and F16 warplanes hovering over the city, and also hearing several explosions due to airstriking different targets in the Gaza Strip.

    Israel began a military operation called "the poured lead" on the Gaza Strip in response to homemade rockets attacks carried out by Hamas and other factions' militants on southern Israeli towns and cities in the vicinity of the enclave.

    The operation began by carrying out intensive airstrikes on Hamas police installations allover the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding hundreds of Palestinians. Most of them were Hamas police officers.

    Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry said death toll in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli airstrikes has hit to 225killed and around 750 wounded.

    Israel said that the intensive airstrike was the first stage of a large-scale military operation against the Hamas movement that has been ruling the Gaza Strip after it routed President Mahmoud Abbas security forces last year.

    Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Fawzi Barhoum, said in a statement that the Islamic movement "will not surrender," adding that "the Palestinian people and Hamas movement "would keep their resistance against the Zionist enemy."