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Air raid sirens sound, blasts heard in Jerusalem: AFP journalists
Jerusalem, March 7 (AFP) Mar 07, 2026
Explosions were heard and air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem on Saturday, AFP journalists said, as the US-Israeli war with Iran entered a second week.

AFP journalists heard three blasts in the sky over Jerusalem shortly after the military said its air defence was working to intercept projectiles from Iran.

The Israeli authorities gave the all clear shortly afterwards and the country's first responders agency Magen David Adom said no injuries were reported in the immediate aftermath.

Overall the Israeli military said it detected 11 launches from Iran towards Israel in the past 24 hours.

Army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said on Friday that there had been a "real decrease" in the number of launches from Iran after almost a week of barrages.

He added that more than 60 percent of Iranian launchers had been destroyed in the US-Israeli bombing campaign.

The Middle East war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran last week has provoked waves of retaliatory Iranian missile fire and rocket fire from Lebanon's Hezbollah.


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