SpaceWar.com reports: “The Israeli military said it intercepted two missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday, a day before a ceasefire is set to take effect in war-battered Gaza.

The military activated air raid sirens in Jerusalem and in parts of central and southern Israel ahead of the interceptions during the day, with the first projectile shot down in the morning.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed the morning attack, hours after the Israeli military intercepted the incoming missile.

The Huthis ‘carried out a specific military operation targeting the so-called Ministry of Defence of the Israeli enemy… using a ballistic missile’ in central Israel, the rebels said in a statement.

The morning attack had triggered explosions over Jerusalem as the military intercepted the missile, AFP journalists reported.

Later, sirens blared across southern Israel as a second missile was fired from Yemen and intercepted by the Israeli air force, the military said…”