(KUNA) -- An Israeli military spokesman said Wednesday that a Palestinian rocket exploded near the southern Israeli settlement (Yed Mrdkhai). An Israeli spokesman told Israel radio the rocket was launched north of Gaza, claiming it exploded in an open area without reports of injuries or damage.Meanwhile, Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, along with the Abu-Ali Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian popular front, claimed responsibility for two advanced rocket attacks on (Nahal Ouz), an area east of Gaza. The two groups issued a joint statement asserting the rocket attack came in response to ongoing Israeli aggression and acts of assassination in Gaza strip where lately Israeli warplanes struck a Palestinian house in Khan Yonis killing two of its inhabitants.