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.

As Israel prepared for the Passover Jewish holiday, which began at sunset, air-raid sirens warning of incoming missiles sounded repeatedly in the Tel Aviv area, first in the morning and then again in the late afternoon.

At one improvised Seder gathering in a Tel Aviv bomb shelter, city council member Hadas Ragolsky said "we asked multiple different restaurants and different distributors to donate food and fruits and everything you can see here -- because it's all donations".

" People here in the shelter created their own family and they wanted to celebrate together. And there are also people who couldn't go to their families in different cities and different places because of the missiles. It's been so crazy to drive today."

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

In Bnei Brak, an AFP photographer saw rescue workers attending to several children near a building, the roof of which was damaged by an impact.

Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan, a city near Bnei Brak, said the girl wounded there earlier in the day had arrived "in extremely critical condition."

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.

Iran has claimed it targets military objectives.

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