The Israeli army said it is continuing its attacks on the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, with soldiers operating in both the central part of the coastal strip and the city of Rafah in the south. An unspecified number of armed opponents had been killed and weapons depots destroyed, the army said. Since Saturday, the air force had conducted around 50 attacks on what it called terrorist targets. There was no more precise or independent information available from the embattled area. The reports cannot be independently verified. Almost ten months after the Hamas terrorist at…