Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the coastal city of Caesarea was hit by a drone on Saturday, with no apparent damage or casualties, as Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon continued. Hamas leader Yahya Shinwar.
The Israeli government said that one of the prime minister's three homes was attacked by three drones, two of which were intercepted, and that neither Netanyahu nor his wife Sara were home at the time.
Israel's air strike system is not motivated by light drones, which are difficult to detect. The Lebanese militia Hezbollah did not claim responsibility for the attack, but said it fired several bursts of rockets into northern and central Israel, killing a 50-year-old man in Acre.
The rocket attacks came after Hezbollah said on Friday it had entered a new phase of large-scale war that began with Israel's ground occupation in the south. Lebanon earlier this month. The Iran-aligned Shiite group said it plans to send more guided missiles and explosive drones to Israel.
An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed two people driving on a highway in Zuni, a predominantly Christian city north of Beirut, the first time the city has been attacked. The attack was the latest in a series of massacres in northern Lebanon last month in areas not affected by the Israeli offensive.
Eyewitness accounts said the drone fired three shots at a car before a man and woman fled on foot, where they were hit in a field next to the road. The airstrike smashed nearby store windows, littered the road and left a crater where a drone killed a couple.
“I didn't expect this here. Thank God, my wife and daughter are safe, but my shop is all destroyed,” said Suhail Abdul Karim, 61, who manages a building complex next to the airstrike site. the observer. He added that he hoped the target of the attack was related to Hezbollah, although there was no official information on the identity of those killed.
Israel carried out at least three daytime airstrikes in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiye on Saturday afternoon, while explosions were heard around the capital. Before the explosions, Israel warned people to evacuate at least 500 meters from several buildings in the Burj al-Barajneh and Chouifet neighborhoods of Dahiyeh. The Israeli military said they were Hezbollah facilities.
Israel bombed the Bekaa Valley, killing five and wounding 13. Among the dead was Haider Shala, mayor of the city of Suhmur. Shala is the second mayor killed by Israel this week in Lebanon, after the mayor of Nabadi, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon. He died on Wednesday in an attack on the city's municipal building.
The Israeli military said on Saturday it had killed Hezbollah deputy commander Nasser Rashid in the southern town of Bint Jabeil.
In Gaza, hospital officials said Israel plans to expel the remaining 400,000 people living there amid a brutal new attack on northern Gaza that has led to accusations that more than 50 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in the last 24 hours. The Israeli military claims that the operation was carried out against reconstituted cells of Hamas militants.
At least two hospitals were attacked by Israeli forces on Saturday. At dawn, Israeli tanks surrounded an Indonesian hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia, shelling the complex's upper floors and cutting off electricity, endangering staff and 40 patients and causing widespread panic, the local Health Ministry said. Doctors said two patients died from lack of oxygen.
Al-Awda hospital in the Jabaliya neighborhood of Gaza, already struggling to cope with the effects of a nearby attack overnight on Friday that killed 33 people, was the target of a tank bombardment that injured several staff members. of the staff, the director said in a statement.
Sinwar's killing in the southern city of Rafah came after a year-long manhunt for the sculptor in a Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that sparked war in Gaza, briefly raising hopes that an elusive ceasefire could be reached. and a hostage release agreement.
However, both Israel and Hamas have so far stuck to their non-aligned positions. Hamas has reiterated that Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian group will be freed following a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, while Israel says it will not face a withdrawal from at least two parts of the territory.
