Israeli aircraft have struck a number of sites in Gaza. It comes after Palestinian militants allegedly fired a rocket, which landed near the Israeli port city of Ashdod. <br /><br /> The Israeli military says it struck four “terror infrastructures” in Gaza after the rocket attack.<br /><br /> Speaking from Israel, Marcel Hadar, a local regional council spokeswoman, described an “explosion.”<br /><br /> “Around nine o’clock, there was a sound of an explosion, no sirens were heard, but we understand that apparently a rocket, a missile, was launched from the Gaza Strip towards our area,” she explained. <br /><br /> There was no immediate claim of responsibility in Gaza for the rocket launching – the longest range strike since a truce that ended the 50-day war last year. <br /><br /> Israeli media speculated that infighting among Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip may have precipitated the rocket firing without the permission of Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers.<br /><br /> Rival militant factions in Gaza are angry that months after the end of t
