GAZA 25 Mar (ANA) - Seven people have been injured after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in central Israel, officials say.

 

The rocket came down at 05:25 local time (03:25 GMT) in Mishmeret, 20km (12 miles) north of the city of Tel Aviv.

 

This is the furthest a Palestinian rocket has reached in Israel since the 2014 conflict with militants in Gaza.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is cutting short a trip to the US over the incident, has vowed to respond with force.

 

So far no-one has said they carried out the attack. The Israeli military accused the militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, but a Hamas official said it had "no interest" in doing so.

 

A week and a half ago, two rockets were launched towards Tel Aviv and nobody was hurt. The Israeli military responded with dozens of air strikes across Gaza, which injured four people.

 

Hamas and Israeli officials later said those rockets had been fired "by mistake".(ANA)

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