Middle East
Hezbollah Steps Up Barrage as Netanyahu’s Home Targeted
- Israel’s prime minister wasn’t present during the drone attack
- Iran denies involvement, blaming its Lebanon proxy, Hezbollah
Members of the Israeli security forces near Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea, on Oct. 19.
Photographer: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
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Drones launched from Lebanon targeted the weekend home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a coastal town north of Tel Aviv as Hezbollah unleashed an unusually intense barrage of projectiles against its southern neighbor.
Neither Netanyahu nor his wife, Sara, were present at the residence, and there were no casualties there, according to a statement from his office on Saturday. Netanyahu called the attack an assassination attempt and “a grave mistake.”