JERUSALEM (AP) — Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the Israeli government targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home on Saturday, saying there were no casualties. Gaza -based Hamas has shown no let-up since then Murder by brain The deadly October 7 attack last year.
Israel’s military said dozens of projectiles were fired from Lebanon. Netanyahu’s The office said the drone targeted his home in the Mediterranean city of Caesarea, although he and his wife were not there.
Israeli security forces guard a road near where the Israeli government says a drone was launched at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea, Israel. Saturday, October 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Shalit)
Hezbollah did not claim responsibility for the drone strike, but said it had launched several rocket attacks on northern and central Israel. Israel was expected to respond with a barrage of attacks Iran attacked earlier this month.
In response, Israel launched at least three airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Tahiyeh, a heavily populated area home to Hezbollah’s offices. The Israeli army said it had come under attack.
In Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on hospitals in the northern Palestinian enclave, and the strikes killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter.
“The possibility of war in the region is a serious concern,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakhsi, who visited Turkey.
Barrages from Lebanon target northern Israel
of Israel War with Lebanon’s Hezbollah — a Hamas ally backed by Iran — has escalated. Hezbollah said Friday it plans to launch a new round of fighting inside Israel by launching more guided missiles and detonating drones. Hassan Nasrallah, the terrorist group’s longtime leader Killed in an Israeli airstrike In September, Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier this month.
Israel’s military said on Saturday that about 180 missiles were fired from Lebanon. A 50-year-old man was killed by shrapnel while sitting in his car in northern Israel, and four others were injured, Israel Medical Services said.
In the northern city of Kiryat Ata, a rocket landed and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and damaged buildings. Haifa regional commander Itzik Billet said nine people were slightly injured. The Israeli fire service said it was battling several flames from missiles in the Shlomi area near the Lebanese border.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the eastern village of Baaloul killed five people, including the mayor of the nearby village of Sohmor. Israel’s military said it was investigating reports of an attack on a building in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
Lebanon’s health ministry said two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle on a highway north of Beirut.
Israel has issued almost daily warnings to people in parts of Lebanon to evacuate buildings and villages. The fighting has displaced more than 1 million people, including 400,000 children.
Israel said on Saturday it had killed Hezbollah’s deputy commander in the southern city of Bint Jabeil. The military said Nasser Rashid oversaw the attacks against Israel.
Israel attacked Gaza after Hamas refused to release the hostages
Both Israel and Hamas Protests have signaled an end to the war in Gaza after the killing Hamas leader Yahya ShinwarHamas attacks on Israel a year ago killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 250 others.
On Friday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Sinwar’s death a painful loss, but declared that “Hamas is alive and will remain alive.”
Hamas has reiterated its position that the hostages from Israel will not be released until a cease-fire is in place in Gaza and Israeli troops withdraw, a year ago. Netanyahu also said that the Israeli army will continue to fight until the hostages are released Stay in Gaza To prevent a weakened Hamas from re-arming.
Israel’s response Attack on Gaza It killed 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who did not distinguish between militants and civilians, but said more than half of the dead were women and children.
More strikes hit Gaza on Saturday. The strikes crippled Internet networks in northern Gaza, Palestinian communications company Baltel said on Facebook.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli airstrikes hit the upper floors of an Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, causing panic as forces opened fire on the hospital’s building and courtyard. At Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, northern Gaza, the strikes hit the upper floors of the building, injuring several staff, the hospital said.
At least 30 people were killed, more than half of them women and children, when three houses were attacked overnight in Jabaliya on Friday, said Farez Abu Hamza, head of the health ministry’s ambulance and emergency service. At least 80 people were injured.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah said at least 10 people, including two children, were killed when a house was struck in the central Gaza city of Zawayda. Another strike killed 11 members of the same family in Magasi refugee camp, the hospital said. Associated Press journalists did body counts from both strikes.
A United Nations school sheltering displaced people west of Gaza City was also attacked, killing several, according to Hamas-run civil defense first responders.
War Destroyed vast areas of GazaWith 90% of its 2.3 million people displaced, they struggle to find food, water, medicine and fuel.
Some see hope after Chinwar’s death
Sinwar’s killing could change the dynamics of the war in Gaza, while Israel presses on An attack against Hezbollah with ground forces in southern Lebanon and Airstrikes in other areas of the country.
Israel’s allies and frustrated Gaza residents expressed hope that Shinwar’s death was will pave the way to the end of the fight.
In Israel, families of hostages are still being held in Gaza The Israeli government demanded that Sinwar’s murder be used as a way to restart negotiations to bring their loved ones home. There are about 100 hostages in Gaza, of whom Israel says at least 30 are dead.
Israel has vowed to politically destroy Hamas in Gaza, and killing Sinwar was a military priority. But Netanyahu said “our war is not over yet” as he announced the killing.
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Associated Press reporters Jack Jeffrey in Ramallah, West Bank, and Bassem Mrou in Beirut contributed to this report.
