Gaza/Tel Aviv - Israeli fighter jets bombed two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip Friday, a military spokesman in Tel Aviv said. He said the air strike was part of "routine" action against the tunnels, through which Palestinian militants smuggle materials from Egypt to use to make rockets.

Palestinians also use the tunnels to smuggle in scarce goods that Israel, as part of its economic blockade, prevents from reaching the coastal enclave.

Friday's airstrike came after one rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern Israeli Eshkol region earlier in the day.

The military spokesman said that since Israel ended a 22-day offensive in Gaza against the rockets on January 18, Palestinian militants fired more than 190 rockets and mortar shells from Gaza into southern Israeli territory.

According to the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 1,417 Palestinians, most of them civilians, died in the offensive, which reduced but failed to end the rocket attacks. Thirteen Israelis also died.(dpa)