A rocket was fired Friday evening from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamists of Hamas, towards Israel, the Israeli army said, without mentioning any casualties or damage.
Alarm sirens sounded in a region of southern Israel, bordering the Gaza Strip, to alert the shooting, which was not immediately claimed.
The last rocket attack against Israeli territory from the Palestinian enclave dates back to October 5.
Read also: Israel welcomes the defection of a Hamas soldier in Gaza
The Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory under Israeli blockade, is controlled by Hamas, an organization considered "
terrorist
" by Israel.
In power in Gaza since 2007, Hamas stepped up in August the launching of incendiary balloons and rocket attacks towards Israel, which responded with airstrikes on the group's positions.
But the two camps reached an agreement at the beginning of September, thanks to mediation by Qatar, in order to cease hostilities and put back on track a fragile truce in force for about a year and a half and favored by the mediation also of the UN and Egypt.