A drone fired from Lebanon landed this Saturday in the central Israeli city of Caesarea, near where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nentayhu has his private residence.
Arab media claim that the private residence of the Israeli president was the target of this attack launched with three drones, two of which were intercepted by the army. “Over the past hour, three unmanned aerial vehicles have been identified passing from Lebanon towards Israeli territory. Two of them were intercepted and a third hit in the Caesarea area,” the military statement said, adding that no injuries were reported.
The Shiite militia Hezbollah has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israel continues to attack Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack the Gaza Strip. At least 33 people were killed and around 70 injured this morning in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to local media. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa points out that sources from Al-Awda Hospital revealed that among the dead civilians were around 20 children and women.
For its part, the Palestinian news agency Sanad broadcast a video showing numerous bodies wrapped in blankets in a report in which it indicated that 30 people died in an Israeli bombardment against a house in the Jabalia camp. However, the Al Manar television channel points out that 33 people were killed in the attack and that this number could reach around fifty, because many residents remained trapped under the rubble.
The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip indicates that 33 people died on the spot and that the number of injured could rise to 70, according to the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour.
The Israeli military reported that as of Friday evening, 20 rockets fired from Lebanon had been detected, some of which were intercepted and others that fell in sparsely populated areas, causing no damage.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported Friday that Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip have killed 62 Palestinians and injured more than 300 over the past day.
Iran’s Supreme Leader says alliance against Israel won’t stop
For his part, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, also assured this Saturday that the anti-Israeli alliance “Axis of Resistance” will not end with the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom he saluted for his years of struggle. . against Israel and for the attack of October 7. “The resistance front will not end at all with the assassination of Sinwar. God willing, Hamas is alive and will remain alive,” Khamenei said in a statement published on his official website regarding the death of the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group.
The highest political and religious authority in Iran assured that his country would continue to “support sincere fighters”, in reference to the groups which constitute the “Axis of Resistance” against Israel, such as the groups of Hamas, Hezbollah and Lebanon, Yemen’s Houthis and Iraqi militias, led by Tehran.
However, Khamenei did not issue calls for revenge, as happened after the death of former Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh last July in Tehran, or after the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in September.
Sinwar’s death, announced Thursday, occurred Wednesday during an Israeli military operation in the Rafah region, south of the Gaza Strip.
The total number of deaths in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive in the enclave more than a year ago has reached 42,500 and the number of injured has reached 99,546, the majority of them women and children.
In Lebanon, since October 7, 2023, nearly 2,300 people have died and more than a million have been forced to leave their homes, particularly in the south of the country due to the intensity of Israeli bombings.
