At least one verified eliminated, 13 hurt as ‘large volley of rockets’ fired throughout Israel from Lebanon.
Published On 19 Oct 2024
A drone has hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s vacation home in the nation’s north, Al Jazeera has validated, triggering air raid sirens throughout Israel, consistingof the primary city of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu’s spokesperson stated one of 3 drones introduced from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s house in the town of Caesarea on Saturday, including that he was not in the area and there were no casualties.
The 2 other drones were obstructed, the Israeli military stated, including that a overall of more than 100 rockets were fired throughout northern Israel from Lebanon, killing one individual and hurting at least 13 others.
Iran-aligned Hezbollah hasactually been trading fire with Israel because last October last year.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman, Jordan since Al Jazeera hasactually been prohibited in Israel, stated the Israeli authorities are dealingwith the attack on Netanyahu’s home as an “assassination effort”.
“Of course, there is no method to confirm that or to state for sure that this was an assassination effort, however that’s how seriously the Israeli security facility is seeing this event,” she stated.
“The truth that a drone was able to go undiscovered 70km from the Lebanese border, no sirens went off, and it struck the planned target, that has triggered a lot of issue in Israel and in the Israeli security facility.”
She stated “a big volley of rockets” from Lebanon were utilized as decoys to launch the drone attack on Netanyahu’s home. Sirens were triggered throughout northern Israel, consistingof the cities of Galilee and Haifa, she stated.
Haifa is the biggest city in northern Israel and