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Two rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula hit southern Israel on Monday morning. The projectiles exploded in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no harm.

According to the military, sirens in the area were not triggered as Israel’s air defenses recognized that the rockets did not pose a threat to the residents.

Sinai Province, Islamic State’s proxy in the desert peninsula, claimed responsibility for the attack.

A Negev Subdistrict Police official told Channel 2 News that police sappers were dispatched to both sites, where they joined security forces in canvassing the areas for the projectiles’ remnants.

Monday’s rocket fire followed reports by the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency that four of the jihadi group’s operatives were killed on Saturday night in an Israeli drone strike in northern Sinai, near Egyptian Rafah.

The report said the strike targeted a cell preparing to fire rockets at Israel. The rockets and lunches were also destroyed in the strike, the report said.

Sinai Province fired four rockets at the southern resort city of Eilat on Feb. 8. The Iron Dome defense system battery stationed in the city intercepted three projectiles, while the fourth exploded in an open area, causing no harm.