A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed early on Tuesday near Ashkelon in southern Israel, police said, in the first such strike since a November truce.
“The rocket fell early in the morning near Ashkelon and did some damage to a road, without hurting anyone,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
It was the first such attack since the end of an Israeli operation late November, during which more than a thousand rockets were fired into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
The two sides finally agreed a truce on November 21 following the eight-day Israeli military operation inside Gaza.
The violence killed 177 Palestinians, about a hundred of them civilians, as well as six Israelis, four of whom were civilians, according to figures issued by the two sides.
Tuesday’s rocket fire comes at a time when tensions are particularly high following the weekend death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, who the Palestinians say had been tortured.