Sharjah24 - AFP: Gaza militants fired a rocket into Israel on Monday, the Israeli army said, the first such incident in months and a sign that a spike in violence around a Jerusalem holy site could escalate further.
"Sirens sounded in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip," the Israeli army said, referring to a Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
"One rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Air Defense System," the military added in a statement.
There were no immediate reports of casualties and no faction in the crowded enclave of 2.3 million inhabitants immediately claimed responsibility.
Israel holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from Israel, and usually carries out air strikes in response to such fire.
The incident, the first of its kind since January, comes after a weekend of violence in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound that wounded over 170 people, mostly Palestinian demonstrators.
Similar violence in Jerusalem around the same time last year triggered repeated Hamas rocket fire into Israel which preceded an 11-day war.
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