HAMAS FIRES ON TEL AVIV

First rocket attack on Israel in 4 months   | Calls for hostage deal at funeral march

- ANDY LINES and PAUL MARTIN

HAMAS yesterday said it had launched a "big missile" attack on the Tel Aviv area in its first major strike in four months.

Israel said at least eight rockets were fired from southern Gaza but it successfully intercepted most of them. No one was killed or seriously injured in the attack, it added.

It came as thousands of people joined a funeral procession yesterday to the cemetery where Israeli Hanan Yablonka, 42, was buried.

Yablonka was murdered by Hamas on October 7 and his body was taken into Gaza. Israeli troops found him on Friday and returned him to his family.

Relatives asked the Israeli public to turn his funeral procession into a march in a solemn call for the government to make a deal to release the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.