Gaza rocket hits city of Ashkelon

A long-range Grad rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip has landed in the city of Ashkelon, Israeli police say.

No-one was injured in the attack - the first involving a Grad rocket since the separate ceasefires announced by Israel and Hamas on 18 January.

Other rockets and mortars have been launched from Gaza, however, and Israel has bombed targets in Gaza.

Israel's three-week operation killed 1,300 people in the strip.

It also caused massive destruction.

Thirteen Israelis were killed during the violence, 10 of them soldiers.

The operation was launched to halt or significantly reduce rocket fire from Gaza, and to degrade the military capability of the Hamas militant group that controls the territory.

Ashkelon, a city of 122,000 people, is 12 km (7 miles) from northern Gaza.

The city is out of range of the standard rockets and mortars fired by Palestinian militants. Factory-produced Grad rockets, which are smuggled into Gaza from neighbouring Egypt, have a longer reach.