AFP - Three Israeli air strikes on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight wounded eight Palestinians, one of them seriously, medics said on Sunday.

Five people were wounded, including the one seriously, in a raid carried out on smuggling tunnels near the southern town of Rafah, they said.

The other three people were wounded in strikes against metal workshops in the territory, one of them in the centre and the other in the north, they said.

An army spokesman told AFP said the raids came in response to a rocket fired on Saturday into southern Israel from the enclave, which landed without causing injuries or damage.

It marked the latest violence along Gaza's border, which has been mostly quiet since a war that Israel launched on Hamas in Gaza on December 27 in response to rocket fire ended with mutual ceasefires on January 18.

The ceasefires have largely held despite violations by both sides.

Since Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza off to all but basic goods following the Islamist movement Hamas's seizure of the territory in June 2007, a vast trade in goods through hundreds of tunnels has developed along the border.

More than 120 Palestinians have died in cave-ins or been killed by Israeli operations targeting the network since the Hamas takeover of Gaza, medics say.