For the first time in more than three months, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel early yesterday morning, according to Israeli authorities, breaking a ceasefire that had been in place since last autumn.
Israeli police reported that a rocket landed in a road outside the city of Ashkelon, causing no injuries.
A subgroup of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinians Fatah faction, claimed it had fired the rocket in response to the assassination of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old Palestinian who died in an Israeli jail Saturday. Palestinian officials have blamed Mr Jaradat’s death on “severe torture” during interrogation after his arrest for throwing rocks at Israeli settlers in November.