Israel said on Friday that it had retaliated against rocket fire from the Gaza Strip by attacking the rockets’ launching pads and had also killed about 30 Palestinian Islamist terrorists in fighting in central and southern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they deployed artillery and fighter jets in response to an undisclosed number of rockets that had fallen in the area around the town of Sderot, which was devastated by the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas and others on October 7. Sderot is about 3 kilometres from the Gaza border. The Nahal Oz kibbutz was also attacked with rock…