Night curfew ordered in Lod: Israeli police spokesman

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld announced that a curfew has been enacted in Lod between 8pm to 4am, local time (5pm-1am GMT), calling it "a strategic decision". 

"People are not allowed to be in public places, people are not allowed to leave the house, people are not allowed to enter the city," he said in a statement to journalists on Wednesday. 

Hundreds of border police officers - usually deployed in the occupied West Bank - have been mobilised in the area, Rosenfeld said. 

"At the same [time], police call upon the public to be aware of the threat of the rocket attacks and to listen to all orders given when going into safe zones and safe areas," he continued. 

Earlier on Wednesday Israel's President Reuven Rivlin accused what he called a "bloodthirsty Arab mob" in Lod of "pogrom".  Lod is a mixed Jewish-Palestinian town south of Tel Aviv.