ByAnshel Pfeffer, Anshel Pfeffer
People in southern Israel ran to the shelters on Sunday morning as IDF sensors detected rocket launches in Gaza.
No warheads fell inside Israeli territory and the military's assessment was that Hamas had either been testing missiles or training its rocket teams.
Indirect talks are scheduled to continue in Cairo between Israeli and Palestinian delegations on a long-term solution for Gaza.
Two weeks ago, the main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, agreed that the PA would take responsibility for security at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
However, there have been additional reports over the past few weeks of Hamas weapons trials, with rockets mainly being fired into the sea.
Israeli intelligence believes that at least 30 per cent of Hamas's rocket arsenal remains intact following this summer's conflict, and that new rockets are already being made and smuggled in.
Israel has doubled the quantity of supplies that can be brought into Gaza through the crossings it controls and agreed to UN-brokered arrangement to allow building materials into Gaza under international supervision.