Israel PM says Hezbollah tried to ‘assassinate’ him with drone

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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran-backed group Hezbollah of attempting to kill him on Saturday (Oct 19) after his workplace mentioned a drone from Lebanon hit the premier’s family home.

The drone assault – which Hezbollah has not acknowledged – got here as Israeli troops fought the Lebanese group on the bottom in southern Lebanon. It adopted a collection of Israeli killings of Iran-backed militant leaders, together with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar.

“The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” Netanyahu mentioned in a press release.

Addressing “Iran and its proxies”, Netanyahu vowed that “anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price”.

He once more insisted on attaining “all our war aims” however added that Israel will “change the security reality in our region for generations to come”.

His workplace earlier mentioned the Netanyahus weren’t at residence and reported no accidents from the drone assault in Caesarea, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Haifa.

The army later mentioned that two of three drones launched from Lebanon had been intercepted. 

“The third hit a building in Caesarea while trying to hit the prime minister,” army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari mentioned throughout a night briefing. 

Iran-aligned armed teams within the Middle East, together with Hezbollah, have been drawn into the Israel-Hamas struggle which has raged in Gaza since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 assault on Israel.

Tehran has launched two direct assaults on arch-foe Israel throughout the struggle, most lately a barrage of 200 missiles, nearly all of which had been intercepted, on October 1 for which Israel has vowed to retaliate.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz mentioned Saturday’s drone assault reported by Netanyahu’s workplace “exposed” the Islamic Republic’s “true face”.

In a publish on social media platform X, Katz accused Iran of main an “evil axis” of regional proxies.

The Israeli army early Saturday had mentioned a drone from Lebanon “hit a structure” within the coastal city of Caesarea, the place Netanyahu lives, with out specifying whether or not it was the prime minister’s residence.

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