JERUSALEM, Feb 27, (AFP): A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit Israeli territory on Sunday morning, raising Israel’s alert level but causing no damage or casualties, according to Israel’s military and police.
The latest rocket, which the military’s spokeswoman said struck a field in the Eshkol region in southern Israel, comes after a string of Israeli air raids targeting militant training camps across the Gaza Strip on Saturday night.
A first set of strikes hit two camps belonging to Islamic Jihad, while a second raid targeted two camps belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement, in the southern city of Rafah.
The second raid wounded four people including a toddler, Palestinian officials and medics said.
A third air strike blasted an Islamic Jihad facility west of Khan Yunis, witnesses said.
The military said the attacks “targeted a number of terror hubs... in response to recent rocket fire into Israel.”

The air raids came after tensions rose along the Israel-Gaza border this week following clashes in which an Islamic Jihad gunman was killed and a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba hit a house but caused no casualties.
It was the first rocket to reach the city since the devastating offensive Israel waged against Gaza December 2008 to January 2009, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the territory’s militants not to “test” the Jewish state.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Sunday that the country’s alert level had been raised in response to the renewed rocket fire and regional instability.
“The police examined the security situation and decided to raise the alert level on Israeli territory for a week,” Rosenfeld said.

“The security examination was undertaken after the new Palestinian rocket fire on Sunday and because of the continued unrest in the Arab and Muslim world,” he said. It is not unusual for Israel to raise its security alert level in response to a perceived increase in the risk of attacks.
That conflict killed 1,400 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
Also on Saturday, a Palestinian man was shot and wounded in the leg as he collected gravel near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.
Palestinians in Gaza frequently forage through the rubble along the territory’s border with Israel, seeking construction materials which are otherwise in short supply because of an Israeli-imposed blockade.
A military spokesman said a group of suspicious people were seen approaching the border. When they failed to heed warning shots, “soldiers fired toward their legs and identified hitting one of them.”
Israel imposes a 300-metre (yard) buffer zone along the length of the border as a “no-go” area where anyone who comes too close is liable to be shot at by soldiers manning watchtowers.
Earlier, at least nine people were wounded recently as Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops in the southern West Bank town of Hebron, medics and the army said.

Some of the estimated 1,000 protesters, who included Israelis and foreign activists, threw stones at troops, who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.
Palestinian medics told AFP that at least four people were injured, while the army said five border police were also hurt.
The demonstration, which called for the reopening of one of the city’s main streets came on the anniversary of the 1994 massacre of 29 Palestinians in Hebron by a Jewish extremist.
“There was a violent and illegal riot in Hebron,” the Israeli military said, putting the size of the crowd at around 300. An AFP photographer and correspondent said 1,000 people attended the rally.
The Israeli military said the crowd “confronted security forces in an effort to enter the Jewish community and the forces used riot dispersal means and the riot was dispersed.”
The military said it arrested one Palestinian, while protesters said at least 10 people were detained during the demonstration.