The Israeli Air Force has launched an airstrike on Gaza, the first such attack since a ceasefire ended the bloody conflict in November.

“Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” a statement from the Hamas Interior Ministry said.

Gaza-based documentary film-maker Harry Fear reports there had been 3 separate strikes at five to midnight on Tuesday.

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the strikes hit near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, after two mortar shells were fired from Gaza towards western Negev earlier that day.

Israel Defense Forces confirmed they had launched an airstrike on a Gaza target Tuesday night, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli military initially claimed that only one projectile had landed in Israel, but later issued a statement saying nothing had landed. “It turns out that nothing fell on Israeli territories,” a spokeswoman told.

Tuesday’s flare up was not the first since the November truce, which was mediated by Egypt after eight days of violence killed 170 Palestinians and six Israelis. In December of last year Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians who they described as rioters, despite Hamas’ claim that the four men were simple farmers near the border. Both sides maintained the peace in the weeks afterward.

Meanwhile, in the latest spillover of the Syrian conflict Israeli tanks fired into Syria Tuesday after shots were fired at troops in the occupied Golan Heights region. A mortar shell landed in the Israeli-controlled section of Golan Heights earlier in the day, although it was unclear if the projectile was fired intentionally.

“Shots were fired at an IDF patrol on the border,” a spokeswoman told Reuters. “No injuries or damage was caused. In response, IDF forces returned precise fire at the source and reported a direct hit.”

She said it is also unknown if the mortar was fired by Syrian rebels or Assad’s forces. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon remained adamant that Israel would not interfere in the Syrian conflict but would respond to any violation of the nation’s security along the border.

Last week the United Nations Security Council warned that violence from the Syrian conflict could spillover across the Israeli border. That concern was related at least in part to the sporadic violence in the region. Two Syrian soldiers were wounded recently after IDF troops launched a missile into the area.

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