A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday hit Israel’s fifth largest city of Ashkelon, a day after the Arab League gave green signal to resume direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The Grad-type rocket hit an open area near a coastal resort on Friday morning, causing some damage but no casualties. None of the Palestinian groups in Gaza immediately took responsibility for the attack.
At least two people were treated for shock. The northern Negev city has been hit many times by rockets during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2008–09, but the number of attack has since been subsided.
Four Qassam rockets and two mortar shells were fired at Israel last weekend, but none of them caused any casualties as they hit open areas in the western Negev