Israeli police confirmed Sunday morning that they had arrested three suspects for throwing two flares at Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea, about 100 kilometers north of Jerusalem.
“The court ordered silence on the details of the investigation and the identity of the suspects for 30 days to avoid interruptions or damage to the investigation,” details a police press release on the joint investigation today. with the Shin Bet (intelligence service). national).
No damage was reported during the incident and, according to police sources, Netanyahu and his family were not at this second residence at the time of the incident. A window in the same house was damaged last month in a Hezbollah drone attack.
This latest misadventure sparked the rejection of a large part of the political class, with Israeli President Isaac Herzog calling it a “dangerous escalation” which should not precede an “increase in violence in the public sphere”, as he put it. ‘denounced in a press release.
In turn, Justice Minister Yariv Levin went even further and described it as the last “link in a chain of violent and lawless actions, the aim of which is to provoke the assassination of the Prime Minister and the overthrow of the elected government by a “violent blow.”
For his part, the Minister of National Security, the settler and ultranationalist Itamar Ben Gvir, declared that “the incitement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exceeded all limits”, he failed in X.
“Today it’s an explosion and tomorrow it’s a real fire,” he said, calling for “an end to the incitement against Netanyahu and his family.”
New Defense Minister Israel Katz also reported threats inside his home today.
