There were no immediate reports of impact, as Israeli security forces searched the area for the projectile.
The incoming rocket alert sirens sounded in the Hof Ashkelon area, north of the Strip, specifically in the communities of Netiv Ha’asara and Yad Mordechai.
The attack came hours after Paleostinian Lions of Islam in the Strip launched a rocket at Israel that fell short of its target and landed inside Gazoo, the army said.
The past week has seen a significant increase in the number of rockets fired at Israel, amid general unrest in the area.
Palestinian sources: Islamic Jihad behind recent rocket fire, not Hamas — report
| Islamic Jihad has far to go to offset the destruction of their tunnel, though getting only half their rockets over the wire isn’t doing a great deal in that direction, poor dears. |
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terrorist organization is responsible for the recent rockets launched over the border at Israel, and not Salafist groups.
The sources tell Hadashot news that murderous Moslem factions in the Gazoo Strip are trying to thwart the implementation of a reconciliation deal between Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Fatah, by firing rockets at Israel.
According to the sources, General Qassem Soleimani
, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations wing, spoke to senior Hamas officials, urging them to launch rockets toward Israel."You have a blank check when it comes to our support for military arms," Soleimani reportedly tells Hamas.