A rocket has been fired form Gaza into Sderot in Israel.

A Code Red alert was sounded at 2.30 on Sunday afternoon before an explosion was heard. A rocket, believed to have been fired from the north of the Gaza Strip, was found between two residential houses inside of Sderot.

In response to the attack, the Israeli airforce attacked a Hamas military wing in the north Gaza Strip and IDF tanks also attacked another known terrorist infrastructure.

According to reports, a 20-year-old Palestinian man was lightly injured by shrapnel.