Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip have fired 15 rockets at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday.
The barrage came from the southern Gaza Strip, according to an IDF statement.
Israel’s missile defence system had successfully intercepted several missiles, the statement said, but others had hit the Israeli border area.
The Magen David Adom rescue service reported that one man was injured in the attack.
Almost 10 months after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the ground offensive in Gaza that soon followed, militants are still sporadically firing rockets at Israel.
Five rockets were fired towards the Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon, but did not cause any damage, the army reported on Sunday.
Meanwhile in Cairo, the government denied the existence of operational tunnels between its borders and Gaza, after Israel said it eliminated dozens of them.
An unnamed high-level Egyptian source said there are no operating tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
He told the state-linked al-Qahera News TV that Israel did not provide proof of the operating tunnels at the borders with Gaza and that reports about tunnels in Israeli media are meant to “justify its continued aggression on the Strip.”
He added that the aim is to spread “false allegations to achieve political goals” and cover up its “failure” in Gaza.
On Sunday, the Israeli army said a tunnel that was three metres tall was uncovered at the beginning of last week in the area of the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow strip that runs along the border with Egypt near Rafah on the Gaza side.
In Brussels, the European Union’s top diplomat expressed the group’s concern over the “continuing destruction of key civilian infrastructure” in Gaza, as it demanded clarity over the fate of a water treatment plant in the southern city of Rafah.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell called on the Israeli government to refrain from targeting vital facilities, with the territory’s “sanitation, solid waste management, and health systems” facing collapse.
Targeted attacks on vital infrastructure facilities are a war crime, Borrell said.
“The ever-worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is creating life-threatening conditions for an already severely weakened civilian population that continues to be subject to starvation and repeated displacement into overcrowded tent camps for the 10th consecutive month, with no end in sight and nowhere to go,” he added.
Borrell said 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 triggered by an unprecedented massacre in which more than 1,200 people in Israel were killed by Hamas and other militant groups on October 7.
Due to the high number of civilian casualties, Israel has come under international criticism.
According to figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 39,000 people have been killed and more than 90,000 injured in the coastal strip since October 7.
