JERUSALEM, Oct 1 (AFP) - Palestinian militants fired two makeshift rockets on Sderot in southern Israel Friday without causing any casualties, an army spokeswoman told AFP.
"One rocket landed in an open field and the second one inside the town. There are no casualties or damages," she said.
The attack, staged from the northern Gaza Strip, occurred despite the massive presence of Israeli armor in that territory with the self-declared objective to stop the firing.
The Popular Resistance Committees, a radical Palestinian group mostly made up of former activists with Palestinian leader's mainstream Fatah, claimed the attack.
A senior Israeli official said Friday the army was about to take a six-kilometer (four-mile) deep strech of land in the nothern Gaza Strip to serve as a buffer zone and keep militants away from targets in southern Israel.
Fourty-five Palestinians have been killed since tanks first rolled into Jabaliya, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanun three days ago.
Two soldiers and a settler were killed in Gaza gunbattles and two Israeli toddlers died in a rocket attack on Sderot during the same period.