Israel attacks Palestinian blamed for rockets from Gaza An Iron Dome battery fires a Tamir interceptor missile at a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in November 2012 Israel's air force on Sunday attacked and severely injured a Palestinian seen as responsible for last week's launch of five rockets towards southern Israel, marking a further ratcheting up of hostilities on its southern border. The IDF said Sa'ad had been involved in concealing, directing and launching rockets at southern Israel over many years, including during Operation Pillar of Defence, Israel's military operation against Hamas in November 2012. In recent days, Sa'ad was involved in "substantial planning of launching rockets at Israeli civilians," it said. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights" Gaza office said the attack took place at about 9:15 on Sunday morning in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya, when an Israeli drone fired a missile at a motorbike hit Mr Sa'ad. The advocacy group said that Mr Sa'ad was seriously wounded by shrapnel and a passing child it identified as 11-year-old Salah Fareed al-Ghuf, was injured by shrapnel in his right foot. The group described the Israeli attack as an "extra-judicial execution attempt," and said it was the first of its kind this year, and the second since April 2013. The Israeli air force retaliated by attacking two "terror activity" sites in southern and central Gaza overnight. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said Israel was "determined to maintain quiet in the south." "We will do so by a policy of preventive action and strong reaction against those who try to harm us or who harm us," he said in remarks at his weekly cabinet meeting. I suggest that Hamas take our policy into account. Gaza has been suffering acute shortages of fuel and other goods that have contributed to a worsening humanitarian crisis among the territory's civilian population since last summer, when Egypt's new government sealed off smuggling tunnels to the enclave.