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The Color Red rocket alert system sounded in Gaza vicinity communities several times on Sunday night and Monday morning, as 20 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.
Earlier, Israel Air Force jets bombs targets in the Strip in response to the firing of rockets at the city of Beersheba on Sunday.
All rockets landed in open areas without causing injuries or damage.
Two days into the UN-brokered truce opposition activists have reported a return to heavy shelling in major cities.
The fighting further undermines the ceasefire intended to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha religious holiday. There are claims from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that eight people have been killed on Saturday and nearly 150 on Friday.
Morhaf Selatt is the Commander of the Binnish Martyrs Battalion. He said the government troops action started early. “We woke up assuming there was a truce. Today is Eid. But since five in the morning they began shelling us. It was heavy fire which proves that for them there is no ceasefire. We were sleeping and some our men are wounded during this supposed truce that we committed to and which they never did at all.”
Security sources and the Islamist militant group Hamas, which governs Gaza, said two air strikes took place early on Monday in the northern town of Beit Hanun.
It is understood militants had been firing mortar shells at an Israeli tank and several military vehicles that had crossed the border.
The first strike critically killed one man and wounded three others, according to a Gaza health ministry spokesman, while the second is believed to have killed one and injured another.
At least 14 soldiers and 12 operatives of al-Qaeda were killed early on Friday when suicide bombers attacked a military base in south Yemen, military sources and local residents said.
The attack started at dawn when five suicide bombers infiltrated the base about five miles east of Shuqrah in the southern province of Abyan, military sources said.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up and the three others were killed in clashes with the government forces in the 115th Brigade command building.
Air Force launches two strikes in Gaza killing two members of Mujahideen Shura Council who planned to carry out terrorist attack in Sukkot, were involved in previous attacks against Israel.
Two Mujahideen Shura Council operatives who planned to carry out a terrorist attack during Sukkot were killed Saturday in two Air Force strikes in Gaza.
One of the terrorists was involved in the firing of a rocket that hit a backyard in Netivot on Friday and the other helped carry out the border attack that claimed the life of Said Fashapshe last June.