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Rocket fired from Gaza strikes Sderot; no injuries Projectile strikes open land in residential area; IDF instructs local residents to enter protected areas By Times of Israel staff September 18, 2015, 9:03 pm

Source: Rocket fired from Gaza strikes Sderot; no injuries | The Times of Israel

A rocket fired from Gaza struck open land in a residential area of the southern town of Sderot on Friday night. There were no injuries reported.

Air raid sirens sounded at around 8:45 p.m. Friday night in southern Israeli communities along the Gaza border, after Israeli defenses identified two rocket launches from the coastal strip.

The “code red” alert was heard in Sderot and nearby communities, Channel 10 television said. The Home Front Command confirmed the rocket launches and instructed local residents to enter their protected areas.

The attack follows a day of clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters.

The Islamist Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, had declared Friday to be a “Day of Rage” in response to days of violence on and around the Temple Mount — a site holy to Jews and Muslims that houses the al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israel had restricted entry to the Mount for Friday prayers earlier in the day, allowing only women and men over the age of 40 to pray there. Hundreds of Palestinians protested outside the Damascus Gate on Friday and three Border Police officers were wounded in an attack in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Sderot and the surrounding area were battered by rockets during Israel’s 50-day war with Hamas last summer. The rocket strikes mostly tailed off after the conflict, although there has been sporadic fire in recent days as tensions flared in Jerusalem. Most recently, a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza early Wednesday fell short of the border and landed in the Palestinian coastal territory.

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