At least two rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula exploded in the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat early on Wednesday causing no casualties, the Israeli army and police said.
Israeli military sources said the vaunted Iron Dome anti-missile system, which was recently deployed around Eilat, did not engage to intercept the rockets.
“We’ve found two explosion sites in the city, we’ve also closed off the airport as a precaution,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, saying one landed in “an open area close to one of the neighbourhoods.”
He said the sirens had sounded but that there were no initial reports of casualties. “Bomb disposal experts are searching the area,” he said.
The military spokeswoman said both rockets had struck open areas.
“There were two rockets fired from Sinai, both landed in open spaces,” she said.
Earlier this month, the Israeli press reported that a battery of the Iron Dome system had been located to the area over fears of such an attack from Sinai.