Palestinian militants have fired a Qassam rocket at Israel from the Gaza strip, killing a Thai farm worker in the first death from a rocket attack since Israel's Gaza offensive last year, Israeli medics said.
Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency service, said that the man was working in an agricultural community just north of Gaza when he was killed.
A small sectarian faction calling itself Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack.
Similar Islamist groups, which condemn Gaza's Hamas administration for being too moderate, have been responsible for most of the attacks since Israel ended its Operation Cast Lead - which claimed 1,400 Palestinian lives - in January 2009.
In a statement emailed to reporters in Gaza, the faction said that it was a response to Israel's Judaisation of Islamic holy places in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank.
Thursday's attack was mounted on the same day that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton crossed into the blockaded territory on a factfinding mission.
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