A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel late on Thursday, without causing any damage or casualties, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "The rocket struck an open area of the Negev" desert said the spokeswoman. Meanwhile, a member of Hamas' armed wing was killed in a "mysterious explosion" in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, the group and Palestinian medical sources said.
The past month has seen an increase in rockets and other projectiles fired at Israel from Gaza after several months of calm following a flare-up in April when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager. Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians in the deadliest violence since Israel's devastating 22-day assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009.
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