JERUSALEM — A surface-to-surface missile fired at central Israel from Yemen on Monday was intercepted, the Israeli military said.

The missile set off air raid sirens across large swaths of central Israel, sending residents running for shelter.

“Following the sirens that sounded in a number of areas in central Israel, the surface-to-surface missile fired from Yemen was successfully intercepted” by the Israeli air force, the military said in a statement.

The statement did not say who fired the missile. The Iran-backed Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen has frequently attacked Israel over the past year in what it says is solidarity with the Palestinians.