(CNN) -- Israel launched air strikes in central Gaza and Gaza City early Wednesday in retaliation for dozens of recent Qassam rocket attacks by Palestinian militants on Israeli citizens, the Israeli military said.
No casualties were reported from any of the incidents.
Palestinian sources said the attacks knocked out electricity in Gaza City, where one of the targets was an office of the ruling Palestinian Fatah faction.
The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged the attack, but had no comment on the power outage or two subsequent attacks in the city blamed on Israeli forces.
The Palestinian sources and the IDF said Israelis also attacked the office of the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at the Al Buraj refugee camp in central Gaza.
Also on Wednesday, Israel said it had sealed 15 offices of "Daawa" organizations, claiming the groups operate under the guise of a charity association but actually help fund terrorism.
The offices were sealed in a joint Israel Defense Forces and Civil Administration effort against the infrastructure of the Palestinians Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, the IDF said in a statement.
"The 'Daawa' organizations were declared illegal following the financial support they provided for families of suicide bombers and imprisoned terrorists," the statement said. "This financial and social support provides an incentive for terrorists to carry out attacks and stems an increase of public support of these terror organizations."
Israel's defense minister has promised to keep up the pressure on Palestinian militants and more were arrested overnight, an IDF representative said Wednesday.
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