Drone targets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house as strikes in Gaza kill over 50

JERUSALEM — Israel’s authorities said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s location Saturday, with nary casualties, arsenic warring with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza -based Hamas showed nary intermission aft the killing of the mastermind of past year’s deadly Oct. 7 attack.

Israel’s subject said dozens of projectiles were launched from Lebanon, arsenic sirens wailed. Netanyahu’s bureau said the drone targeted his location successful the Mediterranean coastal municipality of Caesarea, though neither helium nor his woman were there.

Hezbollah did not assertion work for the drone onslaught but said it carried retired respective rocket attacks connected bluish and cardinal Israel. The barrage came arsenic Israel is expected to respond to an Iranian onslaught earlier this month.

Israel successful crook carried retired astatine slightest 3 airstrikes connected Beirut’s confederate suburbs known arsenic Dahiyeh, a heavy populated country location to Hezbollah’s offices. Israel’s subject said it was looking into the reported strikes.

In Gaza, Israeli forces fired astatine hospitals successful the battered northbound of the Palestinian enclave, and strikes killed much than 50 people, including children, successful little than 24 hours, according to infirmary officials and an Associated Press newsman there.

“The anticipation of warfare successful the portion remains a superior concern,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said portion visiting Turkey.

Barrages from Lebanon people bluish Israel

Israel’s war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah — a Hamas state backed by Iran — has intensified. Hezbollah said Friday it planned to motorboat a caller signifier of warring by sending much guided missiles and exploding drones into Israel. The militant group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed successful an Israeli airstrike successful September, and Israel sent crushed troops into Lebanon aboriginal this month.

Israel’s subject connected Saturday said immoderate 180 projectiles were fired from Lebanon. A 50-year-old antheral was killed aft being deed by shrapnel portion sitting successful his car successful bluish Israel, and 4 radical were injured, Israel’s aesculapian services said.

In the bluish metropolis of Kiryat Ata, 1 rocket landed and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and a damaged building. Itzik Billet, commandant for the Haifa area, said 9 radical were lightly injured. The Israeli occurrence work said it was battling respective blazes from missiles successful the Shlomi country adjacent to the Lebanese border.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike connected an flat successful Baaloul colony successful the eastbound killed 5 people, including the politician of a adjacent village, Sohmor. Israel’s subject said it was looking into reports of a onslaught connected a gathering successful the eastbound Bekaa valley.

Lebanon’s wellness ministry said an Israeli airstrike deed a conveyance connected a road northbound of Beirut, sidesplitting 2 people.

Israel has issued near-daily warnings for radical to permission buildings and villages successful parts of Lebanon. The warring has displaced much than 1 cardinal people, including immoderate 400,000 children.

Israel besides said Saturday it killed Hezbollah’s lawman commandant successful the confederate municipality of Bint Jbeil. The service said Nasser Rashid supervised attacks against Israel.

Israeli strikes lb Gaza arsenic Hamas rejects hostage release

Both Israel and Hamas person signaled absorption to ending the warfare successful Gaza aft the sidesplitting of Hamas’ person Yahya Sinwar, was the main designer of the Hamas raid connected Israel a twelvemonth agone that killed immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped different 250.

On Friday, Iran’s ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sinwar’s decease was a achy nonaccomplishment but declared that “Hamas is live and volition enactment alive.”

Hamas has reiterated its stance that the hostages taken from Israel a twelvemonth agone volition not beryllium released until determination is simply a cease-fire successful Gaza and Israeli troops withdraw. Netanyahu says Israel’s subject volition support warring until the hostages are released, and volition remain successful Gaza to forestall a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive successful Gaza has killed implicit 42,000 Palestinians, according to section wellness authorities, who bash not separate combatants from civilians but accidental much than fractional the dormant are women and children.

More strikes pounded Gaza connected Saturday. The strikes knocked retired net networks successful bluish Gaza, Paltel, the Palestinian communications company, said connected Facebook.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli strikes deed the precocious floors of the Indonesian Hospital successful Beit Lahiya, and forces opened occurrence astatine the hospital’s gathering and courtyard, causing panic. At Al-Awda infirmary successful Jabaliya, successful bluish Gaza, strikes deed the building’s apical floors, injuring respective unit members, the infirmary said.

Three houses successful Jabaliya were struck overnight Friday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 30 people, much than fractional of them women and children, said Fares Abu Hamza, caput of the wellness ministry’s ambulance and exigency service. At slightest 80 radical were injured.

In cardinal Gaza, astatine slightest 10 radical were killed, including 2 children, erstwhile a location was deed successful the municipality of Zawayda, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir al-Balah. Another onslaught killed 11 people, each from the aforesaid family, successful the Maghazi exile camp, the infirmary said. Associated Press journalists counted the bodies from some strikes.

A United Nations schoolhouse sheltering displaced radical successful the westbound of Gaza City, was besides hit, sidesplitting respective people, according to the Hamas-run civilian defence archetypal responders.

The warfare has destroyed immense swaths of Gaza, displaced astir 90% of its colonisation of 2.3 cardinal people, and near them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.

Some spot anticipation aft Sinwar’s death

Sinwar’s sidesplitting could displacement the dynamics of the warfare successful Gaza, portion Israel presses its offensive against Hezbollah with crushed troops successful confederate Lebanon and airstrikes successful different areas of the country.

Israel’s allies and exhausted Gaza residents expressed anticipation that Sinwar’s decease would pave the way for an extremity to the fighting.

In Israel, families of hostages inactive held successful Gaza demanded the Israeli authorities usage Sinwar’s killing arsenic a mode to restart negotiations to bring location their loved ones. About 100 hostages stay successful Gaza, astatine slightest 30 of whom Israel says are dead.

Israel has pledged to destruct Hamas politically successful Gaza, and sidesplitting Sinwar was a apical subject priority. But Netanyahu said successful announcing the sidesplitting that “our warfare is not yet ended.”

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Associated Press reporters Jack Jeffery successful Ramallah, West Bank and Bassem Mroue successful Beirut contributed to this report.