New Delhi: A drone was fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in the Israeli city of Caesarea on Saturday, hours after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Mr Netanyahu’s spokesperson said he was not nearby and there were no casualties in the attack on his residence. “A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) was fired towards the Prime Minister’s residence in Caesarea. The Prime Minister and his wife were not at the location and there were no casualties in the incident,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Earlier, the Israeli military said the drone was fired from Lebanon and it hit a building. Two more drones that entered Israeli territory were intercepted, Reuters quoted the military as saying.
Responsibility for the drone attack was not claimed by Hezbollah or any other militant group, which has been exchanging fire with Israel since last October. Israel is also fighting a war with Hamas’ ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. The two sides have exchanged rocket fire since the October 7 attack, which saw Israel send ground troops to the Lebanese border last month. The drone attack comes a day after the Israeli military said it had destroyed Hezbollah’s regional command center in an airstrike. Since the end of September, the war has killed at least 1,418 people in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real number is likely higher.
Meanwhile, Lebanese officials said two people were killed in an Israeli attack on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, the first attack on the area since exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel began last year. The health ministry said an “Israeli enemy attack” hit a car in Jounieh, with Lebanese state media saying the attack took place on a major highway linking the capital to the country’s north.
The killing of Sinwar in an Israeli operation in southern Gaza is likely to further intensify the tripartite conflict in the Middle East. Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attacks that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and brought more than 250 hostages to Gaza, took over as head of Hamas after its leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the Iranian capital Tehran.
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