Israeli emergency services said a missile fired from Lebanon killed a man in the country’s north Thursday, as sirens and explosions rang out in several Israeli cities following multiple missile launches from Iran.

“In the Nahariya area, MDA teams have pronounced a man of about 30 dead and were treating a man of about 50 who is in serious condition,” Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said.

Three other people also suffered from shrapnel and blast injuries in the same attack, it added.

Hezbollah has fired rockets into northern Israel since entering the Middle East war on March 2.

Earlier on Thursday, an Israeli soldier was also killed in fighting in southern Lebanon.

Since the war in the Middle East began on February 28, the Israeli military has lost three soldiers in combat in southern Lebanon, where ground operations have expanded in recent days.

Meanwhile, air raid sirens sounded and explosions rang out in several areas of Israel on Thursday as Iran launched multiple missiles, the military said, adding that the projectiles had been intercepted.

Shrapnel had wounded seven other people since the first missile attack was detected in the morning, according to Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom.

The military said it had detected nine waves of incoming missiles over the course of the day, triggering sirens in central Israel, Jerusalem, Haifa and some areas of the occupied West Bank.

“Defence systems are operating to intercept the threat,” it said as it announced each salvo.

AFP journalists in Tel Aviv reported hearing several blasts from the morning, while AFP footage showed a residential building in the area struck by debris from an intercepted missile.

The images also showed damage to an apartment, with metal fragments scattered across the scene.

Rescue services and medics were deployed to assess the damage.

Earlier, a spokesperson for Magen David Adom told public radio that several houses were damaged in the central city of Kafr Qassem. Mayor Haitham Taha said the damage was caused by cluster munitions.

Magen David Adom said six people were wounded in Kafr Qassem and one in Tel Aviv.

AFP footage showed a large crater at the impact site in Kafr Qassem, as well as several cars overturned by the blast.