Air-raid sirens sounded across Tel Aviv and Israel’s central region on Sunday afternoon, warning of incoming Hamas rocket fire from the Gaza Strip for the first time in four months.
The Israel Defense Forces’ Iron Dome aerial-defense system intercepted at least eight projectiles, with blasts being reported across Tel Aviv, Petach Tikvah, Herzliya and Ramat Hasharon.
Sunday’s rocket fire reached as far north as the Sharon region, sending residents in the city of Kfar Saba running for shelter for the first time since the war started on Oct. 7, Israel Hayom reported.
At least one Israeli civilian was lightly wounded by rocket shrapnel in Herzliya, according to the Magen David Adom emergency response group.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack just minutes after it happened, saying it had fired a “large barrage” toward Tel Aviv.
According to reports by Israel’s Army Radio station and the Kan News public broadcaster, 12 rockets were fired from a Hamas position in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, located only “hundreds of meters” (feet) away from Israeli forces in the area.
