For the first time since the start of the war, a drone launched from Lebanon on Saturday targeted the house of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, some 100 rockets were fired at areas in Haifa Bay, Acre and Western Galilee, killing or injuring a number of Israeli settlers.
Israeli media reported that a drone was fired from Lebanon and exploded in the central seaside town of Caesarea.
Netanyahu’s office said the drone targeted the Israeli premier’s private home, claiming that Netanyahu and his wife “were not present and no injuries were reported.”
The short statement from Netanyahu’s office came after the Israeli occupation military said that “a building had been hit” in Caesarea.
Footage posted to social media appeared to show Israeli attack helicopters in the air that were apparently hunting the drone further to the north.
Israeli media reported large explosion heard in the Zionist entity’s center, but added that no warning sirens were sounded in Caesarea ahead of the drone impact and explosion.
Meanwhile, however, sirens sounded in Glilot north of Tel Aviv, which houses a major IDF intelligence base and the Mossad headquarters.
Israeli Channel 12 quoted an Israeli settler who resides in Caesarea as saying: “We heard helicopters above us and there was a feeling that there was some sort of incident but there were no sirens so we were not too worried.”
“But then suddenly a large explosion was heard and it was not clear to us if it was from an interception or a drone impact — but it was clear that it was a real incident with no prior warning,” the settler added as he described the attack as “very worrying.”
The drone attack on Caesarea comes a day after Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance Operations Room announced it was entering a new phase in the fight against the Israeli enemy, adding that it had introduced time, over the past few days, new types of precision-guided missiles and explosive drones for the first time.
Earlier on Tuesday (October 15), Hezbollah Deputy Secretary Sheikh Naim Qassem said the Lebanese resistance group has imposed a new equation on the Zionist entity.
“We impose on Israel a new equation of ‘harming the enemy’ as rockets reached Haifa, Tel Aviv last few days”, Sheikh Qassem said in a televised speech via Al-Manar.
Rocket Impacts Kill, Injure Israelis
Meanwhile on Saturday, an Israeli settler has been pronounced dead from critical injuries sustained in a rocket attack near Acre, The Times of Israeli quoted Israeli medics as saying.
Earlier, Israeli media quoted Megan David Adom as saying that at least Israeli were hurt as dozens of rockets targeted the Haifa area and Western Galilee this morning.
The occupation army claimed that some 60 rockets were fired from Lebanon on Saturday. However, Israeli media reported that the number of rockets surpassed 100.
The video below shows rocket impacts in Krayot, north of Haifa.
Source: Israeli Media and Al-Manar English Website
