Sirens were sounded early Friday morning, around 12:40 a.m. throughout Gush Dan, the Shfela (Lowlands) and the Sharon regions.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that the sirens were sounded after a missile was launched from Yemen.
"The missile that was fired from Yemen was successfully intercepted by the 'Arrow' Aerial Defense System. Sirens and explosions were heard following the interception and falling shrapnel," the IDF statement said.
A subsequent statement added, “Following the sirens that sounded in central Israel, the surface-to-surface missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted by an ‘Arrow’ interceptor outside of Israeli territory.”
“There is currently no change to the IDF Defensive guidelines.”
The sirens and explosions that were heard are the result of the interception process that was carried out at a high altitude and above the earth's atmosphere, something that leads to the activation of multiple sirens due to concerns over fragments of the interceptions falling in many areas.
Magen David Adom reported that there are no injuries as a result of the missile launch, except for several people suffering from shock and people who were injured while making their way to shelter.
The firing from Yemen came after Hezbollah confirmed the death of Muhammad Hussein Srour, the commander of its aerial unit, who was eliminated in an IDF strike in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut.
Srour, a senior member of Hezbollah, previously served as military adviser to the Houthi rebels.
After the firing of the missile, senior Houthi official Nasr al-Din Amer wrote in a post on X, “Occupied Jaffa is under fire.”
About two weeks ago, the Houthis fired a missile towards central Israel, which was intercepted "partially" and part of its warhead exploded in the Ben Gurion Airport area.
On Thursday evening, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit stated that, over the past day, the IAF struck approximately 220 Hezbollah terrorist targets in Lebanon.
Among the targets that were struck were terrorist infrastructure sites, launchers from which projectiles were fired toward Israeli territory, Hezbollah terrorists, and weapons storage facilities in Lebanon.
“The IDF is continuing to operate to degrade and dismantle Hezbollah's terrorist capabilities and infrastructure,” it said.
The Commander of the Israel Air Force, General Tomer Bar, on Thursday held a conversation with soldiers and commanders at the Tel Nof Airbase.
"We are now going to prevent any possibility of weapons transfers to Lebanon from Iran, in light of the capabilities we’ve now degraded from Hezbollah," said Bar.