Sirens are activated throughout Israel’s north as ‘massive volley of rockets’ is fired in direction of a number of areas, together with Haifa.
A drone has hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s vacation house within the nation’s north, Al Jazeera has confirmed, triggering air raid sirens throughout Israel, together with the principle metropolis of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu’s spokesman mentioned one in every of three drones launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s residence within the city of Caesarea on Saturday, including that he was not within the neighborhood and there have been no casualties.
The 2 different drones have been intercepted, the Israeli navy mentioned, including {that a} complete of greater than 100 rockets have been fired throughout northern Israel from Lebanon, injuring a minimum of 13 folks.
Iran-aligned Hezbollah has been buying and selling hearth with Israel since final October final 12 months.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman, Jordan as a result of Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel, mentioned the Israeli authorities are treating the assault on Netanyahu’s home as an “assassination try”.
“After all, there is no such thing as a method to confirm that or to say for positive that this was an assassination try, however that’s how gravely the Israeli safety institution is viewing this incident,” she mentioned.
“The truth that a drone was capable of go undetected 70km from the Lebanese border, no sirens went off, and it struck the supposed goal, that has brought about a whole lot of concern in Israel and within the Israeli safety institution.”
She mentioned “a big volley of rockets” from Lebanon have been used as decoys to launch the drone assault on Netanyahu’s home. Sirens have been activated throughout northern Israel, together with the cities of Galilee and Haifa, she mentioned.
Haifa is the biggest metropolis in northern Israel and is seen as a strategic port metropolis that’s house to 300,000 folks and the nation’s naval headquarters.
“The sirens went off good after we bought affirmation {that a} drone assault truly succeeded in concentrating on and putting the home of the Israeli prime minister in Caesarea,” Odeh mentioned.