Israel’s emergency services said 14 people, including an 11-year-old girl, were wounded near Tel Aviv on Wednesday during a missile attack that the military blamed on Iran.

Later in the day, medics said they were treating a 61-year-old man in mild condition with blast injuries in the north following fire from Lebanon, where Israeli forces are fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah.

On Wednesday morning, the military said it had identified a missile launched from Yemen, as well as four rounds of Iranian missiles, which activated air raid sirens across large parts of central and northern Israel.

In the central city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, the Magen David Adom emergency service said it had treated and evacuated to hospital 14 wounded people, including an 11-year-old girl in critical condition with shrapnel injuries.

It said a 13-year-old boy and 36-year-old woman, also with shrapnel injuries, were in moderate condition, while a further 11 casualties were in mild condition.

Police reported damage at several sites in central Israel, sharing an image of what appeared to be missile debris on a road.

AFP images from Bnei Brak, which is largely populated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, showed first responders and residents carrying small children out of an apartment building that was hit.

AFP footage and images from downtown Tel Aviv showed first responders at another impact site and a small crater on the road near the French embassy.

Iran has claimed it targets military objectives.

Due to military censorship rules in place in Israel since the start of the current war, sensitive military sites are closed to the public and the press, while other impact sites in populated areas are generally closed off until they are cleared of missile debris and unexploded ordnance.

Israeli media said cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and scatter bomblets across a wide area, were used in the latest attack.

Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.

“Targeting civilians and increasing casualties through missiles equipped with cluster bombs is part of a long list of war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated for decades by the Iranian fanatical regime,” Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X.

A new wave of alerts warning of incoming Iranian missiles sounded in central Israel at around 5:30pm (1430 GMT), as Israeli Jews were preparing for the Passover holiday.

No injuries were immediately reported.

Israeli media reported that around 10 missiles had been fired from Iran.