One policeman was lightly wounded from smoke inhalation. The fire was reported to be under control soon after the incident.
Firebombs have posed a huge problem for Israeli police and the IDF.
Earlier Wednesday a Palestinian man attempted to attack a group of border guards near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
The guards managed to overpower the Palestinian, who stabbed one of them in the leg, wounding him lightly. The suspect was arrested.
IAF aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing facility in central Gaza Strip early Thursday morning in reaction to a rocket that was fired from the Palestinian enclave and landed in the Eshkol Regional Council earlier in the night.
The IDF said that the targeted facility belonged to Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian faction currently in control of the Strip.
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