Sirens Sound In Israel As Rocket Launched From Gaza

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A rocket has been fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night towards southern Israel, with reports of rocket sirens sounding shortly afterwards.

Israeli Radio have reported that the rocket landed in an open area between two communities.

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Local residents say they heard a sound resembling a blast, the Times of Israel reports. There have been no reports of injuries.

Previous time the IDF reported a rocket launch from the Gaza Strip was June 11. According to local media, the remains of the projectile were found the next morning in an open field near Ashkelon.

On June 4, rockets were fired from Israel with several massive explosions rocking Gaza. Israeli strikes came after two missiles were reported fired from Gaza the previous day. A Salafist group called Omar Brigades, loyal to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for that incident.

Israel’s largest offensive in Gaza against Hamas, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, took place in the summer of 2014. The operation was in retaliation to Hamas rocket fire claimed the lives of over 2,000 Palestinians and 72 Israelis.

According to UN estimates more than 7,000 homes for 10,000 entire families were destroyed in the Gaza Strip while 89,000 homes were damaged.

The latest UN report, published Monday, has accused both Israel and Palestinian armed groups of possible war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict, calling the devastation “unprecedented.”

“The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come” the commission’s chairwoman, New York judge Mary McGowan Davis, said in a statement.