DE Online Desk:
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said a drone was launched toward his residence in Caesarea on Saturday, after the military reported a drone from Lebanon had ‘hit a structure’ in the central Israeli town.
‘A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) was launched toward the prime minister’s residence in Caesarea. The prime minister and his wife were not at the location, and there were no injuries in the incident,’ Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear whether the structure reported hit by the military earlier was his private residence.
The military said three drones had been fired from Lebanon on Saturday and it had intercepted two.
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A barrage of projectiles was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Saturday, with sirens blaring across northern Israel at regular intervals.
Lebanese authorities meanwhile said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, in the first strike on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year.
The health ministry said an ‘Israeli enemy raid’ hit a car in Jounieh, with Lebanese state media saying the attack occurred on a key highway linking the capital to the country’s north.
Israel is fighting a war against Hamas ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Israel sending ground troops across the Lebanese border last month.
On Friday, the Israeli military said it had destroyed Hezbollah’s regional command centre with an air strike.
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Hezbollah said it fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli city of Haifa and areas to its north.
The group later said it launched ‘a swarm of explosives-laden drones’ at an ‘air missile defence base’ east of the central Israeli city of Hadera.
Hezbollah said it fired rockets at northern Israel, including at a military base near the city of Haifa on Saturday after the Israeli army reported a barrage of projectiles launched from Lebanon.
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A ‘large salvo’ of advanced rockets hit a military base east of Haifa, said Hezbollah, which has vowed to intensify attacks on Israel weeks into an all-out war that erupted on September 23.
The Iran-backed group also said it fired a rocket salvo on the northern town of Safed after the Israeli army reported 115 projectiles launched from Lebanon targeting the country on Saturday.
The rockets were fired mainly into northern Israel, with sirens blaring across the region at regular intervals.
Israeli emergency services said a man was killed by shrapnel near the port city of Acre.
Five people were injured in Kiryat Ata, in the Haifa district, mostly from shrapnel injuries, said a spokesperson for emergency service provider Magen David Adom.
A rocket damaged a three-storey building and destroyed cars in Kiryat Ata, with firefighting teams and ambulances dispatched to the area, AFP footage showed.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah on Friday said it was opening a new ‘escalatory phase’ in its war with Israel.
