A statement said sirens were triggered in Israeli communities near the border but the rocket landed in open countryside and no-one was hurt.
Earlier, six Palestinians were shot dead near the border fence with Gaza.
There has been a spate of attacks and confrontations between Palestinians and troops in recent days.
The military statement said the rocket was believed to have landed in a field not far from the border early on Saturday.
Gun and knife attacks by Palestinians have left four Israelis dead and many wounded since last weekend, while at least three Palestinians have been killed during clashes with security forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas which runs Gaza, said a new intifada - or uprising - was under way, although the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the scale of violence does not yet amount to that.
Palestinian medical sources said the six Palestinians were shot dead and many others wounded in two separate incidents in Gaza on Friday when Israeli troops opened fire.
The Palestinians had been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Israeli military said more than 1,000 rioters had massed at the border fence, throwing a grenade and rocks, and rolling burning tyres at Israeli forces.
After firing warning shots, troops fired towards the "main instigators" to disperse the riot, a military statement said.
In Israel on Friday, police reported an apparently "nationalistic" attack by an Israeli, who they say stabbed two Israeli Bedouins and two Palestinians.
The attack in the southern city of Dimona was apparently in retaliation for stabbing attacks on Israeli Jews this week. The suspect was arrested...
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Deadly clashes at Gaza border as Israel tensions escalate...
ReplyDeleteMounting tension between Israelis and Palestinians spread to the Gaza Strip Friday, with Israeli troops killing six in clashes on the border and Islamist movement Hamas calling for more unrest.
A spate of stabbings – three by Palestinians and one by an Israeli – also hit Israel and the West Bank as authorities struggled to control the spiralling violence.
The latest wave of attacks to hit Israel in recent weeks included the stabbing of a 14-year-old Israeli boy in Jerusalem by a Palestinian with a vegetable peeler, police said. The boy was injured in the assault before the attacker was arrested.
In another incident, a Palestinian woman was shot and wounded in the northern Israeli city of Afula when she attempted to stab a security guard at a bus station, police said.
And at the entrance to the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank, a Palestinian man attacked a police officer with a knife and tried to grab his gun. The officer, who was lightly injured, killed his attacker, police said.....france24.com