At least two Grad rockets fired from the Sinai area hit Israel's southernmost city of Eilat on Wednesday morning, causing no injuries but some damage. One of the rockets fell in an open area, and the other landed in a construction site. A number of local residents were reportedly being treated for shock.
Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said bomb disposal crews located the two rockets in two different locations, and that air traffic in the area had been curtailed. "We shut down the airport for security reasons. We'll take additional precautions in the event of more rocket sirens," he told The Jerusalem Post.
An Eilat police spokesman told the Israeli media that sirens were heard in the city at around 9 am, followed by several explosions.
Two rockets also landed in the neighboring Jordanian resort city of Aqaba, Israel Radio reported.
The IDF deployed an Iron Dome battery outside the southern resort city at the beginning of the month, in anticipation of possible rocket fire from the Sinai peninsula.
Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak Halevi vowed that the Red Sea resort city would "slowly return to normal." He said as far as he knew, the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system had not been activated.