Drones have been fired from Lebanon at Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
The attack is considered a serious failure, according to sources in Israel’s security services.
Two drones were shot down by air defenses, but a third is said to have crashed in the coastal town of Caesarea, between Tel Aviv and Haifa, where Netanyahu has his private summer residence.
According to Israel’s military, the drone caused material damage to a building, but it is unclear whether it is the prime minister’s residence that was hit. The Netanyahus were not supposed to be there at the time.
Israel’s security service sees the drone attack on Caesarea as a “very serious” failure, the Galatz radio channel, which is run by the Israel Defense Forces, reports, citing sources.
During Saturday morning, repeated rocket alarms sounded in several places in northern Israel. According to Israel’s military, Hezbollah in Lebanon has fired around 55 projectiles at the country. About ten people have been injured, most of them lightly, writes the newspaper Haaretz.
The Iranian-backed Shia militia claims that the rockets are revenge for Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon, writes AFP. The movement claims, among other things, to have directed attacks against a military base near Haifa.
On Saturday, at the same time, two people, a man and a woman, were said to have been killed in an Israeli attack on a car in Jounieh, north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.