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 Defence Forces’ Iron Dome aerial-defence system intercepted at least eight projectiles, with booms 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 October 7, Israel Hayom reported.

At least one Israeli civilian was lightly wounded when rocket shrapnel fell in Herzliya, the Magen David Adom emergency response group said.

Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades “military” wing claimed responsibility for the attack just minutes after it happened, saying it fired a “large barrage” of rockets towards 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 IDF troops in the area.