The Israeli government said a drone was targeted Home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On Saturday, no casualties were reported, as the fighting between Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza did not stop after the killing of the Hamas mastermind of the October 7 attack last year.
The Israeli army said that dozens of shells were fired from Lebanon, a day after Hezbollah announced a new phase in the fighting. Netanyahu’s office said that the drone targeted his home in the coastal town of Caesarea on the Mediterranean. Neither he nor his wife were there. It was not clear whether the house had been bombed.
There was no information available about where the drone was launched from or who might be responsible for the attempted attack. Israel did not say whether the drone was intercepted or landed elsewhere.
This is the second strike targeting Netanyahu in recent months. In September, The Houthis in Yemen It launched a ballistic missile towards Ben Gurion Airport when Netanyahu’s plane was landing. The missile was intercepted.
Hezbollah did not claim responsibility, but said it carried out several missile attacks on Israel. The bombing came as Israel was expected to respond to an attack earlier this month by Iran, which supports Hezbollah and Hamas.
The Lebanese authorities said that Israel, in turn, launched at least 10 air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a densely populated area that includes Hezbollah offices. The Israeli army said it struck Hezbollah targets.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held a phone call with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant on Saturday The Pentagon said in a statement During which they discussed “regional security developments,” including the recent publication of High altitude area defense system. During the call, Austin told Gallant that he was “relieved” that Netanyahu was safe after the drone attack.
In GazaMeanwhile, the Hamas-run media office in Gaza said early Sunday that at least 73 people were killed in an Israeli raid on a multi-storey residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia on Saturday, Reuters reported.
The Israeli army said it was conducting an investigation but claimed that the numbers issued by the Hamas media office were exaggerated.
Earlier, Israeli forces allegedly fired on hospitals in northern Gaza. Those raids killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter there.
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Hezbollah says it plans to escalate its attacks
Saturday’s strikes on Israel come as its war in Lebanon with Hezbollah intensifies in recent weeks. Hezbollah said on Friday that it intends to launch a new phase of the fighting by sending more guided missiles and bombing drones into Israel. The militant group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in late September, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier in October.
The Israeli military said about 200 shells were fired on Saturday from Lebanon, a day after Hezbollah said it planned to send more guided missiles and explosive drones.
Israeli medical services said that a 50-year-old man was hit by shrapnel and killed in northern Israel, and four other people were injured.
Israel also announced on Saturday that it had killed Hezbollah’s deputy commander in the southern town of Bint Jbeil. The army said that Nasser Rashid supervised the attacks against Israel
In Lebanon, the Ministry of Health said that an Israeli air strike, on Saturday, hit a car on a main highway north of Beirut, killing two people. It is not clear who was in the car when it crashed.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said that an Israeli air strike on an apartment in the eastern village of Baloul killed five people, including the mayor of nearby Sohmar. An Israeli military official confirmed that the Israeli army struck targets in the Bekaa Valley.
A standoff also emerges between Israel and Hamas, which it is fighting in Gaza, with both signaling resistance to ending the war after the war is over. The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar this week. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Sinwar’s death was a painful loss, but noted that Hamas had persisted despite the killing of other Palestinian militant leaders before him.
Khamenei said: “Hamas is alive and will remain alive.”
Since Israel announced Sinwar’s death on Thursday, and a senior Hamas political official confirmed Sinwar’s death on Friday, Hamas has reiterated its position that Sinwar Hostages taken from Israel A year ago they will not be released until there is a ceasefire in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli forces. This tough position contradicts Netanyahu’s statement that his country’s military establishment will continue fighting until the hostages are released, and will remain in Gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming itself.
Israel says Sinwar was the main architect of the 2023 Hamas raid on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and kidnapped 250 others. The Israeli retaliatory attack in Gaza killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, which does not. He does not distinguish fighters from civilians, but he says that more than half of those killed were women and children.
Dozens killed in a new round of Israeli raids on Gaza
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that Israeli raids hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, and forces opened fire on it, leading to a state of panic. The United Nations said that two patients died due to power outages and lack of supplies in recent days.
The Israeli army said he was working near the hospital and “was not shot intentionally.”
The army also said it was looking into the matter after Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of Gaza, said strikes hit the upper floors, wounding a number of staff. She later said that the army struck ambulances and the courtyard, wounding four people, including a paramedic.
In central Gaza, at least 10 people were killed, including two children, when a house was hit in the town of Al-Zawaida, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, to which the victims were transferred. An AP reporter counted the bodies at the hospital. Another raid killed 11 people, all from one family, in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, where they were transferred. An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the hospital.
Fares Abu Hamza, head of the Ambulance and Emergency Service at the Ministry of Health, said that at least three homes were bombed on Friday night in northern Gaza, killing at least 30 people, more than half of whom were women and children. Houses in Jabalia were bombed and at least 80 people were injured.
War Large areas of the Gaza Strip were destroyedIt displaced about 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, leaving them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.
Sinwar’s killing appeared to be a chance encounter on the front line with Israeli forces on Wednesday, and could change the dynamics of the war in Gaza even as Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah with ground forces in southern Lebanon and air strikes elsewhere in the country. .
Israel pledged to politically destroy Hamas in Gaza, and killing Sinwar was a top military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech he gave on Thursday evening in which he announced his death that “our war is not over yet.”
Yet the governments of Israel’s allies and the residents of Gaza are exhausted Express hope Sinwar’s death would pave the way for ending the war.
In Israel, families of hostages still being held in Gaza have called on the Israeli government to use Sinwar’s killing as a means to resume negotiations to bring their loved ones home. There are still about 100 hostages in Gaza, and Israel says at least 30 of them are dead.
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