Hamas fires rockets at Israel troops at key Gaza-Israel crossing

Hamas's armed wing said it fired rockets at Israeli troops on Tuesday at the key Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, already closed after previous rocket fire over the weekend.

The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, which claimed a rocket attack on the crossing on Sunday that killed four Israeli soldiers, said in a statement that it had "targeted the gathering of enemy forces" at Kerem Shalom in the latest attack.

The Israeli army said the latest rockets fired at the Kerem Shalom crossing were launched from the Rafah area where troops were engaged in a ground operation.

"Following the sirens that sounded in the Kerem Shalom area, four mortar shell launches were fired from the area of Rafah toward Israeli territory," the military said in a statement, adding that no casualties or damage were reported.

Hamas's armed wing had also fired rockets at Israeli troops at Kerem Shalom on Sunday, killing four Israeli soldiers.