The Israeli occupation army claimed, on Wednesday evening, to have intercepted a rocket "launched from Gaza" towards the Beersheba area in southern Israel.

Army Radio reported that a rocket fired from Gaza toward the Beersheba area in the Negev Desert was intercepted without triggering air raid sirens.

The privately owned Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom quoted residents of Beersheba as saying they heard two explosions in the area, but no alarms were activated.