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Summary Israeli army said that a rocket was fired on Saturday from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
A rocket was fired on Saturday from the Gaza Strip into Israel, hitting the southern area of Ashkelon without causing any casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.Several rockets have been fired from the Palestinian territory into Israel this week, resulting in damage in the town of Sderot, where a house was hit on Friday.Following the attacks, claimed by a radical Salafist splinter group, Israels air force retaliated early on Saturday by carrying out raids against training camps run by Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules Gaza.The raids wounded two people, according to Palestinian medical officials.Despite an informal truce between Hamas and Israel, tensions flare periodically on the Gaza-Israel border, with Palestinian militants firing rockets into the Jewish state and the Israeli military launching retaliatory air strikes on the Palestinian territory.The last major flare-up was in June when militants fired more than 150 rockets at southern Israel, wounding five people, and Israel hit back with air strikes which killed 15 Palestinians.
