The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is cutting short a trip to the United States in light of the attack.
A long-range rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding six people in the first such incident since a 2014 war in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli authorities said.
The strike came minutes after the Israeli military activated air raid sirens in the area and said one rocket had been launched out of the Gaza Strip, a coastal territory 50 miles away where Hamas and other factions possess such weapons.Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the home in Mishmeret was hit by a rocket from Gaza.Mishmeret is more than 80 kilometres from the Gaza Strip and rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave at that distance is rare.
No damage or injuries were caused, but Israel responded to that and further rocket fire by hitting what it said were around 100 Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip.Both Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad denied they were behind the March 14 rocket fire towards Tel Aviv, raising the possibility they were launched by fringe groups.
The reports were a sign that Israel was seeking to calm tensions. The military had refused to comment on the reports at the time.
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