Palestinians fired a rocket from Gaza into Israel (Occupied Palestine) on Saturday without causing any casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.
The rocket struck an uninhabited area in the western part of the Negev desert, the spokesman said.
It came just two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas relaunched direct peace talks broken off when Israel launched a devastating offensive against Gaza in December 2008.
Hamas, which controls the territory, is vehemently opposed to the new negotiations and carried out two shooting attacks against Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank in the run-up which killed four and wounded two.
Israel said its 2008 attack was intended to put a stop to rocket fire from Gaza but around 110 rockets or mortar rounds have been fired by militants in the territory this year.
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