Four Rockets Fired from Gaza Hit Israel

Four rockets fired from the Gaza Strip struck inside Israel on Wednesday, causing neither casualties nor damage, an Israeli police spokesman said.

The rocket fire came as U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Israel and the Palestinian territories. He is scheduled to visit Gaza on Thursday.

"A rocket landed by one of the kibbutzim near the border. It landed in an open area, and there was no damage and no injuries," spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Agence France Presse.

"Three other rockets later crashed into an uninhabited area near the town of Sderot," in the Negev desert, he added.

Militant groups in the Palestinian territory regularly fire crude rockets into southern Israel, usually causing little damage but often prompting retaliatory air strikes.