On Saturday Israel was attacked by rockets fired by the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, after the death of a senior commander of Islamic Jihad which occurred Friday.

The rockets fired by the Palestinians caused little damage.

According to an Israeli army spokeswoman, five rockets were launched from Gaza, while the Popular Resistance Committees allied with Hamas and Islamic Jihad said that ten rockets were fired as an answer to the death of Ayman Fayed, better known as Abu Abdallah.

Mourners at his funeral were saying: "Blood begets blood!"

Islamic Jihad's armed wing said in a statement that it will get its revenge: "This blood will not be wasted. The response will be deep inside the Zionist entity," Reuters reports.

The group is known for launching suicide bombings between 1995 and 2005.

Fatah resents the Islamists who took control over Gaza last year, but even so, a Fatah spokesman in the West Bank supported the accusations against Israel for the blast on Friday.

Fahmi Zarir said: "The occupiers have entered the phase of organized crime against the Palestinian people. We demand the international community force them to end their crimes."

Israel says it has nothing to do with the Friday blast which occurred late in the day killing eight people, including Fayed's children, a son and a daughter, aged 6 and 5.

According to Islamic Jihad and some local residents, the air strike over the house in Gaza Strip was carried by Israel.

On the other hand, others who live nearby said that they didn’t hear any aircraft noise before the blast.  

Israel has used in the past air strikes to kill militants in Gaza but since 2006 it hasn’t hit a house.

A week ago a bomb hit the Israeli town of Sderot wounding an 8-year-old boy and urging the Israeli government to respond to the attacks.

Khaled al-Batsh, a senior Islamic Jihad official, made a connection of Fayed’s death to the one of a top Lebanese Hezbollah commander in Damascus who also died by a bomb last week. Israel rejected any connection with his death.

Khaled al-Batsh said: “It seems that Israel has decided to escalate its aggression against the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon.”