Israel intercepted early on Monday two aerial targets launched from the east after sirens went off in the central areas of Rishon Letsiyon and Palmachim, the military said on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.

It gave no further details of the source of the drones.

Last year's Hamas attacks killed 1,200 people and more than 250 were taken hostage, Israeli figures show.

They provoked an Israeli offensive in Gaza that laid waste the densely populated coastal enclave and killed almost 42,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say.