Moments after sirens blare in Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Ramat Hasharon, several booms can be heard in the area.
A total of four rockets were launched from Gaza, with at least one intercepted by Iron Dome.
Rockets were aimed across the central region, setting off a series of sirens.
Israel is simultaneously carrying out a particularly heavy raid over Gaza, Channel 2 reports, in part apparently to make it harder for Hamas to launch.
Israel’s security chiefs are reminding Israelis to heed the correct procedures, stay in protected areas when sirens sound, and not go outside to watch Iron Dome in action.
This is rather surreal, to put it mildly — hearing sirens, then booms; watching Israeli TV report Hamas’s Hebrew threats; watching Israeli TV showing the rockets being fired out of Gaza — aimed at us — and watching the live TV footage of those rockets being (mercifully thus far) intercepted.
Hamas says this is only the first barrage of its threatened challenge to Iron Dome, and that more will follow.
Israelis seen at a bar in Tel Aviv, central Israel. Several alarms sounded in the past few days warning about rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, and the Tel Aviv area. They were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile system. July 10, 2014. (photo credity: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
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