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 residence 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 certainly one 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 had been intercepted, the Israeli army mentioned, including {that a} whole of greater than 100 rockets had been fired throughout northern Israel from Lebanon, injuring not less than 13 individuals.
Iran-aligned Hezbollah has been buying and selling fireplace 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”.
“In fact, there isn’t a method to confirm that or to say for certain 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 induced plenty of concern in Israel and within the Israeli safety institution.”
She mentioned “a big volley of rockets” from Lebanon had been used as decoys to launch the drone assault on Netanyahu’s home. Sirens had 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 residence to 300,000 individuals and the nation’s naval headquarters.
“The sirens went off good after we received affirmation {that a} drone assault truly succeeded in focusing on and placing the home of the Israeli prime minister in Caesarea,” Odeh mentioned.
