Jerusalem:
The Israeli military said Monday that air raid sirens were activated across central Israel, including the commercial center of Tel Aviv, when projectiles were fired across the border from Lebanon.
“Sirens sounded in a number of areas in central Israel due to projectiles fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” the army said in a statement.
Police said they had deployed officers to locate and secure potential impact locations “to ensure public safety.”
In a later statement, the army said that “several interception attempts had been made on a number of projectiles crossing from Lebanon.”
It was not specified whether any of the projectiles had breached the country's air defenses.
The barrage comes just a day after a Hezbollah drone strike killed four soldiers in the deadliest attack on Israel since the start of Lebanon's war.
Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon on September 23 and sent ground troops across the border a week later.
Israel has pledged to secure its northern border to allow tens of thousands of people to flee as a result of nearly a year of rocket fire from Hezbollah. Hezbollah says the rocket fire is in solidarity with its Palestinian ally Hamas.
Israeli air defenses, including the Iron Dome system, have intercepted most of the projectiles to date, with some casualties resulting from strikes or falling debris.
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