Air raid sirens are sounding in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
The Home Front Command sent an early warning of missile launches from Iran.
Despite intense shelling of Israel on Wednesday, no air raid sirens were sounded in Haifa the previous day.
On Tuesday evening, sirens sounded three times due to shelling from Lebanon.
Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Israel has detected missile launches from Iran.
“A short while ago, the IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the IDF said on Telegram.
Iran has been striking Israeli territory and US military targets in the Middle East in response to a joint military operation launched by the United States and Israel on February 28. The first day of military action saw Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed and a girls’ school in southern Iran bombed. Iran puts the death toll at over 1,300.
The US and Israel initially claimed their “preemptive” attack was necessary to counter the perceived threat coming from Iran’s nuclear program, but they soon made it clear that they want to see a change of power in Iran.
