A siren that sounded in in the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Givatayim Bat Yam Holon and Azur at predawn time on Thursday has scared many Israelis raising tension in those areas.
According to Hebrew news outlets many Israelis in central Israel awoke at 02:48 a.m. Thursday to the sound of a rocket alert siren which ended up being a false alarm.
The Israeli army spokesman’s office said several minutes afterwards that an examination found the siren sounded was a false alarm.
A rocket alert siren drill was scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv earlier this week in the morning hours but it was called off amid the tensions on the Gaza border after the Israeli army struck a Palestinian resistance tunnel south of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The deadly tunnel blast in Gaza which left seven resistance fighters killed and dozens injured along with foreign reports that Israeli warplanes attacked an ammunition factory in Syria raised fears of retaliation among the Israelis across the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
