JERUSALEM – A projectile fired from the Gaza Strip landed in an open area in southern Israel, the military said on Wednesday.
No-one was hurt and it did not cause any injuries when it landed in the Eshkol region, which flanks the northeastern sector of the Israel-Gaza border, the army said. It was not immediately clear if it was a mortar or a Qassam rocket, which takes its name from the armed wing of the Islamist movement Hamas. Gaza militants have fired dozens of rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel in recent months, causing damage and light injuries on several occasions. Israel routinely responds to such firing with retaliatory air raids targeting what the military says are training sites, weapons facilities and smuggling tunnels.
The air force attacked two targets in Gaza late on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack earlier in the day which damaged some greenhouses in southern Israel.
