The Israeli army spokesman announced that a missile had been launched from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements, but the Iron Dome system was not activated, he said.
And the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported this evening, Saturday, that an explosion was heard near the Nahal Oz settlement, in what is known as the Gaza periphery.
The Israeli army initially announced the sounding of sirens in the area and said it was looking into the reasons.
Later, it issued a statement stating that it was "a follow-up to activating the alert in an open area in the northern Gaza Strip area, as we are talking about monitoring the launch of a missile from the Gaza Strip."
The statement added that no interception missiles were fired, and that "life on the home front is normal as usual."
This is the first time in nearly a month that the Israeli army has announced the detection of a missile launch from the Gaza Strip.
Israel put its defense system on alert around the Gaza Strip, in anticipation of a response by the Islamic Jihad movement, after the martyrdom of two of its field commanders in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the day before yesterday, Thursday.
The Islamic Jihad Movement and its armed arm, the Al-Quds Brigades, mourned the two martyrs, and said that they were among its most prominent field commanders, stressing that they were martyred during their response to an Israeli incursion into the Jenin camp.
The movement stressed that "the crime of killing them will not go unanswered" and that it "will not break the resistance's will to fight the occupation."
This comes in the context of an Israeli escalation in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, which was condemned by the Palestinian Authority and the European Union, which said that "the killing of 10 Palestinians in 72 hours shows the Israeli security's use of lethal force in violation of international law."