On Wednesday, Hamas boasted that it launched a long-range rocket from the Gaza Strip at Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat. The rocket did not set off sirens in Eilat or any other towns in the south, and the IDF later said that the projectile landed in an open area, causing no injuries or damage.

Earlier the terror group also claimed to fire a long-range R160 missile toward the Haifa area, setting off sirens in the northern towns of Daliyat al-Karmel and Kerem Maharal. The IDF said the projectile exploded in mid-air.

Yesterday a missile apparantly launched as part of fighting between Hamas militants and Israel struck the Egyptian resort town of Taba about 220 km (135 miles) from the Gaza Strip early on Friday, Egypt’s Al Qahera News reported. The missile hit a Taba ambulance facility and a residential building for the administration of the Taba Hospital. injuring at least six people.

Taba, in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on the Egyptian side of the border with Eilat, is popular with tourists. It is about a three-hour drive from Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

But were the missiles actually fired by Hamas? The U.S. military, which is on heightened alert for activity by Iran-backed groups as regional tensions soar, said last week a Navy warship in the northern Red Sea intercepted projectiles launched by Yemen’s Youthi group potentially toward Israel.