Gazans 'fire anti-tank missiles'

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Palestinian militants have fired two anti-tank missiles at Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, violating a four-month-old truce, Israel has said.

The Israeli military said troops investigating "suspicious movements" along the fence marking the edge of the Strip came under fire.

The incident was said to be the first use of such weapons during the truce.

It came a day after officials told the Israeli media they could not confirm reports of an earlier rocket attack.

Israel had closed cargo crossings in the Gaza Strip in response to Thursday's reported attack.

No Palestinian militant group claimed responsibility for the anti-tank missile attacks, and no casualties were reported.

A previously unheard-of group calling itself Hezbollah Palestine said it was behind Thursday's reported attack.

But defence officials were unable to find the remains of the suspected rocket, and were investigating the possibility that the warning system had malfunctioned, the newspaper Yehdiot Ahranot reported.

Rocket barrages from Gaza largely ended after Israel and militant groups agreed a truce in June.

The rocket fired on Thursday morning slammed into an empty field in southern Israel, without causing any damage or casualties.

Israel and Egypt have blockaded the overcrowded and impoverished Gaza Strip since the Hamas militant group seized control of the territory in June 2007.

After the 19 June ceasefire took effect, Israel allowed more goods to enter Gaza, but there remain severe shortages and exports are banned.