Palestinians launch tens of rockets into southern Israel

Palestinians fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza into Israel on Sunday hours after Israeli forces killed a Palestinian trying to plant explosives near the border security fence between Israel and the Hamas-ruled territory. Some of the rocket fire was intercepted by missile defences and there were no reports of any Israelis injured.

An Israeli army spokesperson statement said that more than 20 rockets were launched into Israel. Earlier on Sunday, the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said the man killed in the morning was one of its members, but it did not disclose what he was doing in the area. In a statement, the Israeli military said soldiers opened fire at two Palestinians placing an explosive device next to the fence in the Hamas Islamist-run enclave.