Israeli aircraft have launched a strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza in response to insurgents’ rocket fire, the Israeli military say.

There were no casualties from the strike, according to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Conflicting reports suggested that there were three Israeli airstrikes, according to witnesses cited by AFP.

Israel has closed the Gaza goods crossings as a sanction against the rocket fire, IDF confirmed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any Gaza militant group. The rocket landed in an open field and did not cause damage or casualties, an Israeli military spokesperson said.

"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians, and will not allow for a return to the reality before Pillar of Defense where Israeli civilians are threatened," the IDF stressed in a statement.

The rocket attack at the beginning of April attack broke the November truce between Gaza and Israel that followed an eight-day Israeli military operation in Gaza, Pillar of Defense, during which over 100 Palestinians and two Israeli citizens died.

Following the April assaults on village Eilat in southern Israel, the country's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Those responsible [for the Eilat attack] were apparently members of a terrorist cell that left Gaza and used Sinai in order to attack an Israeli city. This is unacceptable. We will exact a price for this; this has been our consistent policy for the past four years and it will serve us here as well.”

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