Two rockets struck Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat this morning, causing no casualties or damage, the city's mayor said.

The mayor, Meir Yitzhak Halevy, told Army Radio that the rockets, apparently fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, struck open areas.

Rockets were last fired at Eilat in November. The attacks, launched from the Sinai, have fuelled Israeli concerns about Islamist militant activity along its Egyptian border since President Hosni Mubarak's downfall in 2011.

Army Radio said there were reports that two rockets had also hit the neighbouring Jordanian city of Aqaba.

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