Militants from the Gaza Strip on Monday night fired a homemade rocket from the Hamas-controlled enclave at the western Negev area in southern Israel, an Israeli army spokesman told Israel
Radio.
The radio quoted the army spokesman as saying that Palestinian militants from Gaza fired one homemade rocket that landed near Sha'ar
Hanegev council in southern Israel, causing no injuries or damages.
No one in Gaza claimed responsibility for the rocket attack, which was launched shortly after the Hamas government in Gaza announced that it would carry out measures to preserve the highest interests, implicating halting rocket attacks from Gaza at Israel.
Spokesman of Hamas government Taher al-Nounu called in a statement on the Palestinian factions and Gaza militant groups "to agree on a national
accordance that draws up a certain mechanism in dealing with the changes on the ground with Israel."
Al-Nounu referred in his statement to the mounting Israeli military actions carried out recently against the Gaza Strip. At least ten
Palestinians were killed in Israeli air and ground strikes on the enclave within the last ten days.
Al-Nounu declined to give any details related to what kind of measures Hamas government would take "in order to preserve the highest national Palestinian interests."
He yet stressed that "it is the right of the Palestinian people to defend themselves."
However, well-informed Palestinian sources in Hamas government told Xinhua in condition of anonymity that police forces will soon deploy and
carry out field campaigns to prevent firing rockets from Gaza at Israel.
The sources said that such measures would be agreed upon the nearest future with all Palestinian factions and armed groups in the Gaza Strip "in
order not to give Israel (any excuse) to carry out more attacks against Gaza."