JERUSALEM: The Israeli Army said it launched strikes on Tuesday on a position belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, after gunfire from the Palestinian enclave.

鈥淔ollowing the firing of a bullet from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the IDF (military) is currently striking a Hamas military post in the northern Gaza Strip,鈥� the army said.

It added on Twitter that 鈥渇ighter jets鈥� were carrying out the strikes.

鈥淓arlier today (Tuesday), a bullet was found in the community of Netiv Haasara,鈥� the army statement said, referring to an Israeli agricultural community adjacent to Gaza鈥檚 northern border.

鈥淎fter an inquiry, it was found that the bullet hit an industrial building earlier today after being fired from the Gaza Strip,鈥� the army added.

A witness in Gaza鈥檚 Beit Hanoun area said they saw multiple strikes on a security site controlled by Hamas.

The latest strikes come after Israeli warplanes targeted a Hamas site in the Gaza Strip over the weekend in response to rocket fire from the enclave, the military said.

That exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden had visited Israel and the occupied West Bank. 鈥淭he military site consists of an underground complex containing raw materials used for the manufacturing of rockets,鈥� the Israeli army said on Saturday.

The weekend strike 鈥渨ill significantly impede and undermine Hamas鈥� force-building capabilities,鈥� it said, adding that Israel was responding to 鈥渁ttacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli territory.鈥�

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem condemned Saturday鈥檚 strikes, which the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said caused no injuries. WAFA said Israeli missiles were fired at two locations, one 鈥渘ear a tourist resort,鈥� where nearby houses were severely damaged. There had been two separate launches toward Israel on Friday night, each of two rockets, the military said.

Israel announced late on Saturday it was suspending a decision to increase the number of permits granted for Gazans to work in the Jewish state. The quota was raised before Biden鈥檚 visit by 1,500 permits, allowing 15,500 Gazan workers into Israel.

Impoverished Gaza, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, has been under Israeli blockade since 2007 when Hamas seized power from the secular Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday that Israel will respond 鈥渜uickly, forcefully and without hesitation鈥� to any fire from Gaza.