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The bombs struck in the Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza
Strip. Local hospital officials said there were no casualties.
The militant rocket fired earlier landed in a field in southern
Israel and did not cause casualties.
"The IDF (military) will not permit any attempt to undermine the
security and jeopardize the well being of the civilians of
Israel. The Hamas terrorist organization is responsible and
accountable for today's attack against Israel," military
spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said in a statement.
Two previous cases of militant rockets landing in Israel have
been recorded but there was no retaliation to them.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8 with the declared
aim of halting cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas. The
fighting was ended by an Egyptian-brokered truce on August 26.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were
killed in seven weeks of fighting, according to the Gaza health
ministry. Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers and six civilians in
Israel were killed.
In a separate incident on Friday, four Palestinian protesters
were shot in the legs by Israeli troops after they ignored
warnings to keep away from the border fence between the coastal
territory and the Jewish state, the military and Gaza medical
officials said.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Ori Lewis; Editing
by Toni Reinhold)
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