Air raid sirens sounded across northern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and West Bank settlements, following a barrage of rockets fired directly from Iran and multiple drone infiltrations.
Widespread air raid sirens were activated across northern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv, following missile launches directly from Iran and multiple drone infiltrations. The barrage is part of the unprecedented regional war that erupted this month following the US and Israeli "Epic Wrath" operation against Iran and the subsequent assassination of the Iranian Supreme Leader.
According to alerts from the Israeli Home Front Command relayed by Al Jazeera—a Qatari state-funded network whose editorial stance is frequently critical of Israel and sympathetic to the Palestinian perspective—sirens sounded in several cities and towns "after rockets were fired from #Iran". The network reported that the Home Front Command activated alerts in central and southern Tel Aviv, as well as in "settlements in the central and southern West Bank". Al Jazeera Palestine corroborated these alerts, confirming that sirens were activated across multiple areas in northern and central Israel.
Northern Israel faced a heavy concentration of these attacks. Al Jazeera reported that sirens sounded in Misgav Am and across the Upper Galilee due to a combination of rocket fire and what the Home Front Command described as being "suspected of drone infiltration". Additionally, widespread alerts were triggered in the northern Golan Heights following another drone infiltration.
The reporting strictly relays alerts issued by the Israeli Home Front Command as broadcasted by Al Jazeera networks. The use of the term 'settlements' reflects the standard Arabic media terminology for Israeli communities in the West Bank.