The Israeli government said on Saturday that a drone was launched to the prime minister’s residencebut caused no casualties, while the supreme leader of iran promised that Hamas will continue its fight against Israel after the murder of the architect of the deadly assault on October 7 last year.
The air raid sirens were activated on Saturday to warn of fire coming from Lebanon. The army said They launched dozens of projectiles. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Benjamin Netanyahuindicated that a drone targeted his residence in the coastal city of Caesarea, although Neither the president nor his wife were in the property..
The incidents occurred as Israel studies its expected response to the attack launched by Iran at the beginning of the month and continues with its offensives against the Hamas insurgency in Gaza and the political-paramilitary group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In LoopIsraeli forces fired on hospitals in the devastated north and attacks across the Strip caused more than 50 deadincluding children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and a reporter from Associated Press on the spot.
In September, Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile at the airport Ben Gurion when a plane carrying Netanyahu was landing. The projectile was intercepted.
Attacks from Lebanon target northern Israel
In addition to the drone launched at Netanyahu’s private residence, the Israeli military said that as of Saturday morning, a few shots had been fired. 180 shells from Lebanon.
A 50 year old man died after being hit by shrapnel while sitting in his car in northern Israel and four people were injured, according to Israeli medical services.
In Kiryat Ata, a city in the north of the country, the air raid sirens sounded as residents ran for cover and intercepted missiles exploded in the sky. A projectile fell in the area and AP journalists saw burned vehicles and damage to a building, Itzik Billet, commander of the Haifa area, said nine people reported minor injuries.
The fire department said it was working to extinguish several fires caused by missiles in the Shlomi area, less than a kilometer (mile) from the Lebanese border.
The Israel’s war against Hezbollahan ally of Hamas and which also has the support of Iran, has intensified in recent weeks. The militia said Friday it planned to begin a new phase in the fighting by launching more guided missiles and explosive drones into Israeli territory. The group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack in late September and the Israeli army launched a ground raid on the south of the neighboring country in early October.
Israel also announced on Saturday the death of the group’s deputy commander in the southern city of Bint Jbeil. According to the military, Nasser Rashid oversaw attacks against Israel.
He Lebanese Ministry of Health reported Saturday that two people were killed when the car they were traveling in on a highway north of the capital, Beirut, was hit by an Israeli attack. The identity of the victims was not immediately clear.
Israel attacks Gaza as Hamas refuses to release hostages
The confrontation between Israel and Hamas, which have been fighting in Gaza for more than a year, also continues and both sides are reluctant to end the war after the death of the leader of the insurgent group, Yahya Sinwarthis week.
On Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameneisaid his passing was a painful loss, but noted that Hamas has moved forward despite the casualties of other leaders before him.
“Hamas is alive and will be alive,” he said. Khamenei.
Since Israel announced Sinwar’s death on Thursday and a senior political official in the group confirmed it on Friday, Hamas has reiterated its stance that the hostages it captured in Israel a year ago will not be freed unless there is a ceasefire in the Strip. fire and a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops. His position responded to a statement by Netanyahu in which he noted that his army will continue fighting until the hostages are released and will remain in Gaza to prevent Hamas, seriously weakened, from rearming.
Sinwar was the main architect of the assault commanded by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 peoplemostly civilians, and around 250 were kidnapped. Israel responded with an offensive that has claimed the lives of more than 42 thousand Palestiniansaccording to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilian victims and combatants in its count, but points out that the majority of them are women and minors.
More incidents were reported in the Strip on Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that the Israeli strikes reached the upper floors of the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahiyaand that the troops opened fire in the building and in the courtyard, spreading panic among the patients and the center’s staff.
At the Awda hospital in Jabaliya, in the north of the besieged enclave, the attacks also reached the upper floors and injured several workers, the center said in a note. Three homes in Jabaliya were attacked overnight and at least 30 people were dead, more than half of them women and children, he said. Fares Abu Hamzaresponsible for the ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health. At least 80 more people were injured.
In the center of the Strip, at least 10 people lost their lives, including two children, when a house was hit in the town of Zawaydaaccording to the Martyrs of al-Aqsa hospitalwhere the victims were taken. Another operation killed 11 people from the same family in the Maghazi refugee camp, the center added. AP reporters counted the bodies from both incidents at the hospital.
The attacks knocked out internet networks in northern Gaza, the Palestinian communications company said Saturday. Paltel in a post on Facebook.
The war has devastated large areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of its 2.3 million inhabitants and caused serious shortages of food, water, medicine and fuel.
An opportunity with the death of Sinwar
Sinwar’s killing appeared to come during a chance frontline encounter with Israeli soldiers on Wednesday and could change the dynamics of the war in Gaza as Israel presses ahead with its offensive against Hezbollah with ground troops in southern Lebanon and airstrikes. on other areas of the country.
Israel has pledged to politically destroy Hamas in Gaza and eliminating Sinwar was one of its top military priorities. But Netanyahu said in a speech announcing his death Thursday night that “our war is not over yet”.
Despite this, the governments of Israeli allies and exhausted Gazans expressed hope that Sinwar’s death would pave the way to an end to the war.
In Israel, families of hostages still held captive demanded the government use the fall of Sinwar to restart negotiations for the release of their loved ones. About 100 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 30 of whom have died, according to Israel.
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