Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired at least one rocket into southern Israel on Saturday night, striking an open field, the Israel Defense Forces said.
In response, IDF tanks shelled two Hamas positions in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said.
According to the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council, the projectile caused neither injury nor damage.
As the rocket was not heading toward a populated area it did not trigger sirens in Israeli communities. However, the Israel Defense Forces said, it set off alerts on cellphones in the area.
Earlier on Saturday, a suspected explosive device attached to a cluster of balloons that was apparently launched from Gaza was found in a field in the Merhavim Regional Council.
A group of foreign workers who were reportedly not aware the object could be a bomb picked up the balloons, but it did not explode.
The day before, terrorists in the Strip launched what appeared to be the warhead from a rocket-propelled grenade attached to balloons into southern Israel.
The suspected explosive was discovered in a field near Kibbutz Ruhama, northwest of Gaza, and police sappers were called to inspect the RPG warhead, according to Hebrew media.
It was at least the sixth suspected airborne explosive device launched from Gaza to be found in the south over the course of Friday.
In one of the instances, Route 3 in the south of the country was temporarily closed while sappers dealt with a suspicious object that appeared to have become detached from balloons.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said Israel has begun mapping parts of the West Bank to annex, appearing to further step back from a pledge to swiftly apply Israeli sovereignty over these areas following the publication of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
“We’re already in the process of mapping the territory that according to the Trump plan will be part of the State of Israel,” he said at a Likud campaign event in the Ma’ale Adumim settlement town on Saturday night.
“This won’t take a lot of time and we’ll complete this,” Netanyahu added, without further specifying.
Immediately after Trump announced the release of his Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal during a January 28 White House ceremony attended by Netanyahu, the premier told reporters he planned to bring his plan to annex the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements for cabinet approval within days.
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