Gaza terrorists fired a short-range rocket on the Eshkol region of southern Israel on Thursday night. The rocket hit an open area, and no injuries or damages were reported.
The rocket followed one week of quiet. One week earlier, a rocket hit the outskirts of a kibbutz in the Gaza Belt area; no injuries were reported.
Last week, regional leaders in the south met with IDF commanders to discuss the ongoing rocket attacks. “There are still rocket alerts... Some would call this 'quiet,' and when there's a bit more fire it's 'louder,' but in any case it's not a ceasefire,” Shaar HaNegev council head Alon Schuster said at the time.
Prior to the previous rocket attack, General Amos Yadlin, the head of IDF intelligence, said Hamas has refrained from firing rockets on Israel since the Cast Lead counterterrorist operation earlier this year. The sporadic rocket fire from Gaza comes from smaller terrorist groups, he said.
Military experts have warned that Hamas's silence simply means that the group is regaining its strength following Cast Lead, in which roughly 600 Hamas terrorists were killed and most of its smuggling tunnels and rocket factories were destroyed. Since the operation, Hamas has been building a more advanced tunnels system in order to smuggle in long-range rockets and anti-aircraft weaponry, they warn.