A Red Alert siren indicating an incoming rocket sounded in the Ashkelon area on Thursday at around 10 PM local time. Locals reported hearing a loud noise, The IDF later announced that the siren was prompted by a failed rocket launch from Gaza. The most recent incident of rocket fire in the Ashkelon area was on Saturday, which led Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon to order the closure of Israel's two border crossings to the Gaza Strip, Kerem Shalom and Erez, temporarily and the IAF to strike targets. A Salafist group that sympathizes with Islamic State, the "Omar Brigades," who claimed responsibility for two earlier rocket launches, claimed the Saturday launch as well. The group said the rocket aimed at Ashkelon was in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, and their own members incarcerated in Hamas-controlled jails in Gaza. "The Jews will never enjoy security and safety as long as we are alive," the group said in a statement. Last Wednesday, at least two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel around 11 PM local time, with at least one of them falling in an open area in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. In response, Israel Air Force jets struck 3 targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday. Photo: Rockets launched from Gaza during last summer, Video: recording of Red Alert siren in Ashkelon

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Red Alert siren in Ashkelon as a failed rocket from Gaza lands inside the strip

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