Europe News Desk!!! Militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets at southern Israel, less than a day after a fragile truce took effect after five days of deadly fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group. An Israeli military spokesman said in a statement on Sunday evening that the rocket landed in an open area, causing no injuries or damage, Xinhua news agency reported. No interceptor was launched as per protocol, the statement said. The rockets set off sirens in several communities around the Gaza Strip and the southern city of Ashkelon.
There was no immediate Israeli retaliation for the rocket. The five-day confrontation began on Tuesday following an Israeli airstrike that killed three senior PIJ leaders in the Gaza Strip. During the fighting, Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes, killing at least 33 Palestinians and injuring more than 150 others, according to the Gaza-based health ministry. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that 1,469 rockets were launched from Gaza towards Israel, of which 1,139 targeted Israeli territory. According to Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency medical service, two people had died in Israel. An 80-year-old woman was killed when a rocket hit a residential building and a Palestinian man from Gaza was killed when he was working in an Israeli greenhouse.
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