Israeli air defenses intercepted a surface-to-surface missiles fired from Yemen, the military said after sirens were activated in Tel Aviv and across central Israel early Friday morning.

The Israel Defense Forces said the missile was downed “outside the country’s borders” by the long-range Arrow air defense system, adding that warning alerts were triggered due to concerns about falling shrapnel from the interception.

The IDF also said there were no new instructions from the Home Front Command following the attack.

There were no reports of direct impacts from the shrapnel and no one was directly hurt by falling debris, though the Magen David Adom ambulance service said a 17-year-old girl was moderately hurt after being struck by a car pulling to the side of the road amid the attack.

The girl was conscious and taken to a local hospital, according to MDA, which said another 17 people were lightly hurt after falling on their way to shelters or as the result of acute anxiety.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, though Yemen’s Houthi rebels said a military spokesman would make an announcement in the coming hours.

A Houthi official hinted the attack was in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike Thursday that killed senior Hezbollah leader Mohammed Srur, whose death was confirmed by the Lebanese terror group shortly before the sirens sounded in Israel.

Srur was among a number of top advisers sent by Hezbollah to Yemen to train the Houthis, who are also backed by Iran, a source close to Hezbollah told AFP.

The IDF, which described Srur as Hezbollah’s drone commander, said he was Hezbollah’s attaché to Yemen where he was involved in the Houthis’ aerial forces.

The strike targeting Srur was the fourth in a week targeting Hezbollah commanders in the densely populated southern suburbs of Beirut, one of the Shiite organization’s strongholds, with fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifying after nearly a year of cross-border skirmishes.

The missile attack from Yemen came after Hezbollah fired a surface-to-surface missile at Tel Aviv early Wednesday, the first time it has as gotten a rocket close to Israel’s central hub. Hezbollah said the attack was a response to thousands of pager and walkie-talkie explosions among its ranks — widely attributed to but not officially claimed by Israel — and the recent assassinations of the top commanders in IDF airstrikes.

Yemen’s Houthis have fired over 220 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones at Israel over the past 11 months — mostly toward the southernmost city of Eilat — saying like Hezbollah that the attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been battling Hamas since the Palestinian terror group’s October 7 attack.

The Yemeni rebels have also launched several attacks targeting Tel Aviv, including a surface-to-surface missile earlier this month and drone in July that killed a man at his apartment.

Following the deadly attack, Israel struck the main harbor in Yemen controlled by the Houthis.

Agencies contributed to this report.