GAZA - A homemade projectile was fired before dawn on Saturday morning from the Gaza Strip into its southern Israel, no injuries or damages were reported, Israel Radio Arabic service reported.
An Israeli army spokesman told Israel Radio that the projectile landed on Ashkol town in western Negev in southern Israel causing no damages or casualties.
The spokesman said the projectile was fired into southern Israel by militants in the Gaza Strip as a test launching, adding that the Israeli army systems discovered the projectile and the sirens didn't operate.
No one in Gaza claimed responsibility for the firing the projectile into Israel. However, it is the second time that Israel says a rocket was fired into its southern territories since the end of the 50-day Israeli on Gaza in Aug 26.
Israel said that on Sept. 16 a projectile was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel, where Islamic Hamas movement denied if it was even aware of any rockets fired from Gaza into Israel.
The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip which started on July 8 and ended on Aug. 26 ended in accordance to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire reached between Israel and Gaza Hamas-led militant groups.
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