The Israeli military struck a Hamas post in the southern Gaza Strip Sunday in response to a Palestinian attack on an Israeli military vehicle, the military said.

No one was wounded in the exchange but it marked a rare flare-up along the tense border that has remained largely quiet since a bloody 50-day war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza in the summer of 2014.

Despite the cease-fire that has largely held since, terrorists in Gaza occasionally launch rockets toward Israel. Israel typically responds to any fire toward it and holds Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the territory it controls.

While neither side appears interested in an escalation, casualties could spark more violence.

Sunday’s incident comes shortly after thousands took to the streets to protest chronic power cuts in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in one of the largest unauthorized protests in the territory since the Islamic terror group took power a decade ago.

(AP)