JERUSALEM, March 4, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - The Israeli military said it detected multiple missile barrages from Iran on Wednesday, as well as launches from Lebanon, triggering air raid sirens across the country.

AFP journalists heard several blasts and multiple rounds of sirens from Jerusalem, while alerts also sounded in Tel Aviv, central Israel, Haifa and several other northern regions.

"The IDF identified missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel. Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat," the military said four times throughout the afternoon and early evening.

In a statement shortly after the first salvo was announced, the military said that "several launches... from Lebanon toward Israeli territory were successfully intercepted" after sirens sounded in central Israel.

The new salvos came on the fifth day of the Middle East war, which began on Saturday with joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Lebanon was dragged into the war on Monday when the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group launched an attack on Israel to "avenge" the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting ongoing Israeli air strikes.

Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency services said they had evacuated to hospital two people in central Israel with mild injuries, including "a man of about 30 with shrapnel wounds and another casualty with blast injuries".

Police said in a statement that officers were dispatched to five locations in the Jerusalem area "where various intercepted projectiles had fallen, causing only damage".

The military said that the "majority of the launches" from Lebanon were intercepted.

Not including Wednesday's figures, MDA said that since the start of the war its teams had provided medical treatment to 414 casualties including "10 fatalities, 2 seriously injured, 6 moderately injured, and 396 lightly injured".