According to AFP reporters on the ground, as the nation rang in the New Year on Monday, several rockets fired from the Gaza Strip targeted Tel Aviv and southern Israel.
As journalists in Tel Aviv witnessed Israeli missile defence systems intercept the missiles, air raid sirens went out.
While some people carried on celebrating New Year’s Eve, others who had congregated on the streets did so indoors.
AFP correspondents said that one strike targeted Tel Aviv a minute after the first one, which happened at midnight (22:00 GMT) and targeted southern Israel.
“I was terrified, like it was the first time I saw missiles, its terrifying,” Gabriel Zemelman told AFP outside a Tel Aviv bar where he had come to celebrate with friends.
Hamas’s military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for both attacks in a video posted on social media.
They said they used M90 rockets in “response to the massacres of civilians” perpetrated by Israel.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack.
Hamas “decided to start 2024 by launching a barrage of rockets at Israel”, the military said in a post on social media.
The latest rocket attacks came as Israel continues its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which has killed at least 21,822 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
The war was triggered by an unprecedented Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, which left around 1,140 people dead, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
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