Gaza militants fire a rocket into Israel
No casualties from the rocket attack are reported
Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza into Israel on Saturday without causing any casualties or damage, an army spokesman said.
The rocket struck an uninhabited area in the western part of the Negev desert, the spokesman said.
It came just two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas relaunched direct peace talks broken off when Israel launched a devastating offensive against Gaza in December 2008.
The Islamist Hamas movement which controls the territory is vehemently opposed to the new negotiations and carried out two shooting attacks against Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank in the run-up which killed four and wounded two.
Israel said its 2008 assault was intended to put a stop to rocket fire from Gaza but around 110 rockets or mortar rounds have been fired by militants in the territory this year.
Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitz said on Saturday that he expected the "imminent" arrests of the perpetrators of the two attacks, which he said were not the only attempts by Palestinian militants to cast a pall over the relaunch of peace talks.
"This week there have been dozens of alerts about attempts to carry out attack in Israel and in Judaea and Samaria (the occupied West Bank)," Aharonovitz said in comments broadcast by army radio.
Hamas has vowed to carry out further attacks against Israeli targets in the coming weeks.