Hezbollah claims responsibility for drone attack on Netanyahu holiday home

Hezbollah spokesperson besides acknowledges that immoderate of the group’s fighters person been taken captive by the Israeli military.

The Lebanese equipped radical Hezbollah has claimed work for a drone onslaught past week connected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vacation residence successful Caesarea successful bluish Israel.

“The Islamic Resistance claims work for the Caesarea cognition and targeting Netanyahu’s home,” the caput of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, said astatine a quality league connected Tuesday.

One of 3 drones launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s vacation residence connected Saturday. His spokesperson said the premier curate was not successful the vicinity astatine the clip of the onslaught and determination were nary casualties.

Afif said that if successful the erstwhile onslaught Netanyahu was not hurt, “the coming days and nights and the [battle]fields are betwixt us.” Afif appeared to beryllium hinting that Hezbollah mightiness transportation retired akin attempts successful the future.

He besides said determination would beryllium nary negotiations with Israel portion warring continues and acknowledged that immoderate Hezbollah fighters person been taken captive by the Israeli military.

“Israel does not adhere to the morals of war, and we clasp it liable for the information of our prisoners successful its custody,” Afif said.

In effect to Israel’s targeting of the Hezbollah-linked fiscal steadfast al-Qard al-Hassan, Afif said Hezbollah “had anticipated specified … an aggression and has taken each precautions and volition bash everything that is indispensable to fulfil its obligations towards depositors”.

After Saturday’s drone onslaught connected Netanyahu’s house, Israel launched respective aerial attacks connected Beirut’s confederate suburbs and has continued to since.

On September 23, Israel launched an intense bombardment of Lebanon and aboriginal sent successful crushed forces aft astir a twelvemonth of cross-border exchanges of occurrence with Hezbollah.

More than 2,500 radical person been killed successful Israeli attacks connected Lebanon since October 2023, according to Lebanese wellness authorities.