(VOVworld) - Israel announced the reopening of two border crossings with Gaza that it had closed over the weekend, an army spokeswoman said on Monday.

Entire neighbourhoods in Gaza were destroyed during the war.

The spokeswoman added that the crossing points at Erez and Kerem Shalom will open as normal on Tuesday morning. The two crossings had been ordered shut after a rocket fired from Gaza struck Israeli territory on Friday, without causing any casualties or damage. Raed Fatouh, the Palestinian official responsible for coordinating traffic through Kerem Shalom, said the reopening would allow fuel and other commodities into the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Also on Monday, Israel’s government advanced plans for 500 settler homes in Ramat Shlomo in northeast Jerusalem.

The rocket was the second to hit Israel since the end of the Jewish state’s devastating 50-day war on Gaza militants

In another development, over 100 former high-ranking Israeli army members, police officers and spy chiefs called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue peace with the Palestinians. In a letter to PM Netanyahu, they mentioned the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia that called on Israel to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in exchange, Arab countries would normalize relations with Israel.