Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip fired 15 rockets into Israel, the Israeli military (IDF) said on Monday.
According to an Israeli army statement, the barrage came from the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli missile defense system successfully intercepted several missiles, the statement said, but other missiles landed in the Israeli border area.
According to the Magen David Adom rescue service, one man was injured in the attack.
Nearly 10 months after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and the ground offensive in Gaza that followed shortly thereafter, militants are still sporadically firing rockets into Israel.
Five rockets were fired at the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon but caused no damage, the military said Sunday.
Meanwhile, the government in Cairo denied the existence of operational tunnels between its borders and Gaza, after Israel said it had removed dozens of them.
An anonymous senior Egyptian source said there are no operational tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
He told the state-affiliated al-Qahera News TV that Israel has not provided evidence of the presence of tunnels on its Gaza borders and that reports of tunnels in the Israeli media are intended to “justify the continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.”
He added that the aim is to “spread false accusations to achieve political goals” and to cover up the “failures” in Gaza.
On Sunday, the Israeli military reported that a three-meter-high tunnel was discovered early last week in the area of the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow strip along the border with Egypt near Rafah on the Gaza side.
In Brussels, the European Union’s top diplomat expressed the group’s concern about the “continued destruction of key civilian infrastructure” in Gaza and demanded clarity on the fate of a water treatment plant in the southern city of Rafah.
EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell called on the Israeli government to halt attacks on essential services, saying the area’s “sanitation, waste management and health care systems” are on the verge of collapse.
Targeted attacks on vital infrastructure are a war crime, Borrell said.
“The deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is creating life-threatening conditions for an already severely weakened civilian population. The population continues to suffer from hunger and has been forced to flee into overcrowded tent camps for 10 months. There is no end in sight and nowhere to go,” he added.
According to Borrell, the devastating situation in Gaza is causing diseases such as polio to spread, especially among children.
He also reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire to end the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza, including the remaining Israeli hostages.
The war was sparked by an unprecedented massacre on October 7, when more than 1,200 people were killed in Israel by Hamas and other militant groups.
Israel has been subject to international criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties.
According to figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 39,000 people have been killed and over 90,000 injured in the coastal strip since October 7.
