JERUSALEM/GAZA, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Militants in Gaza fired two rockets at southern Israel on Wednesday, with one of them being intercepted and the other exploding without causing casualties, the Israeli military said in a statement.
The rockets triggered sirens in communities near the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli police.
The military said the two projectiles, one of them falling in the community of Zimrat in the northwestern Negev desert, were fired from the central Gaza Strip. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said that no casualties were reported.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), claimed the attack, saying it fired "a barrage of rockets" in response to the Israeli offensive against Palestinians. ■
