JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government said a drone targeted the prime minister’s home on Saturday, though there were no casualties, as Iran’s supreme leader Hamas vowed to continue its fight in the wake of the attack. Kill the mastermind From the deadly October 7 attack last year.
Sirens sounded in Israel, warning of fire coming from Lebanon. The army said that dozens of shells were fired. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu His office said the drone targeted his home in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea, even though he and his wife were not home.
The bombing comes at a time when Israel is studying its expected response to the attack Iranian attack earlier this month It continues its attacks against Hamas fighters in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In Gaza, Israeli forces fired on hospitals in the devastated northern part of the Palestinian enclave, and raids in the enclave killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter there.
Last September, the Houthi rebels in Yemen Launched a ballistic missile Towards Ben Gurion Airport when Netanyahu’s plane was landing. The missile was intercepted.
A barrage of missiles from Lebanon targets northern Israel
In addition to the drone fired at Netanyahu’s private residence, the Israeli military said about 180 shells were fired throughout the day from Lebanon on Saturday morning. A 50-year-old man was killed after being hit by shrapnel while sitting in his car in northern Israel, and four people were injured, Israeli medical services said.
In the northern city of Kiryat Ata, sirens sounded as people ran for cover, and intercepted missiles exploded in the sky. A missile landed in the area, and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and a damaged building. Itzik Belet, Haifa District Commander, said nine people were slightly injured.
The Israeli Fire Service also said it was battling several fires caused by rockets in the Shlomi area, less than a mile (one kilometer) from the Lebanese border.
Israel The war with the Lebanese Hezbollah – Hamas’s Iranian-backed ally – has intensified 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 armed group’s longtime leader was Hassan Nasrallah He was killed in an Israeli air strike In late September, Israel sent ground forces into Lebanon earlier in October.
On Saturday, the Israeli army issued new warnings to evacuate two buildings in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik in Beirut. Israel issued almost daily warnings for people to leave buildings and villages across Lebanon. The fighting led to the displacement of more than one million people, including about 400,000 children.
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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.
Israeli raids bomb Gaza and Hamas refuses to release the hostages
A confrontation also ensued Between Israel and Hamaswhich you are fighting in Gaza, where they both indicate resistance to ending the war afterward 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 in his first comment on the killing: “Hamas is alive and will remain alive.”
since Israel announced Sinwar’s death on Thursday, This was confirmed by a senior Hamas official Hamas on Friday reiterated its position that hostages taken from Israel a year ago will not be released until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza and Israeli forces withdraw. This strict position contradicts Netanyahu’s statement that his country’s army will continue fighting until the hostages are released, and will continue fighting. Stay in Gaza To prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming itself.
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. Aggression in Gaza Israel has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, which do not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but say that more than half of the dead are women and children.
More attacks bombed Gaza on Saturday. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Israeli raids hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, and that forces opened fire on the hospital building and its courtyard, which sparked a state of panic among patients and medical staff.
The hospital said in a statement that at Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza, the raids hit the upper floors of the building, wounding a number of workers. Fares Abu Hamza, head of the Ambulance and Emergency Service at the Ministry of Health, said that three homes in Jabalia were bombed on Friday night, killing at least 30 people, more than half of whom were women and children. At least 80 people were injured.
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 in Deir Al-Balah, where the victims were transferred. The same hospital said that another strike killed 11 people, all from one family, in the Maghazi refugee camp. Associated Press journalists counted bodies in the two hospital raids.
A UN school housing displaced people in western Gaza City was also targeted, killing several people, according to first responders in the Hamas-run Civil Defense.
Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel said on Facebook on Saturday that the raids destroyed internet networks in northern Gaza.
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.
Chance of Sinwar’s death
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 puts pressure on its forces. Attack on Hezbollah With ground forces in southern Lebanon and Air strikes in other areas From the country.
Israel pledged to politically destroy Hamas in Gaza, and killing Sinwar was a top military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech on Thursday announcing his death that “our war is not over yet.”
However, the governments of Israel’s allies and the exhausted population of Gaza expressed hope that Sinwar’s death would happen Pave the way In order to end the fighting.
In Israel, families of hostages are still being held in Gaza The Israeli government demanded that Sinwar’s killing be used As a means to resume negotiations to return their loved ones to their homeland. There are still about 100 hostages in Gaza, and Israel says at least 30 of them are dead.
Associated Press reporters Jack Jeffrey in Ramallah, West Bank, and Bassem Marwa in Beirut, Lebanon, contributed to this report.
