The Israeli military has denied an Islamic Jihad claim that a barrage of rockets hit towns near the Gaza Strip early Saturday, reported dpa.
A spokeswoman said that rockets had not been launched on Israeli towns from Gaza and there had been no response from Israeli forces as the Palestinian militants had claimed earlier Saturday.
The Islamic Jihad faction had said its armed wing had fired 10 homemade rockets into Israeli cities near the Gaza Strip.
It claimed Israeli planes responded by bombing four abandoned rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip.