BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police are searching Jerusalem for the remains of rockets that Hamas says its armed wing fired toward the city of Jerusalem late Friday.
The al-Qassam Brigades said it fired two homemade missiles toward Jerusalem and a long-range missile at the Israeli Knesset in the city.
There were no immediate reports of injury or damage after air raid sirens were heard in Jerusalem and nearby towns near Bethlehem.
A Ma'an reporter in Bethlehem, which is south of Jerusalem, observed a trail from a rocket above the city shortly before a blast was heard.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an that the rocket landed in the area of Gush Etzion, a bloc of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Rosenfeld said police received a number of reports of explosions from residents in the area but did not discover the wreckage.
It was the first Palestinian rocket since 1970 to reach the vicinity of the city. The al-Qassam Brigades have named the long-range missile the M75, in honor of assassinated Hamas founder Ibrahim al-Maqadma and its range in kilometers. more
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