
A drone has hit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s holiday home in the country’s north, Al Jazeera has confirmed, triggering air raid sirens across Israel, including the main city of Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu’s spokesman said one of three drones launched from Lebanon hit Netanyahu’s residence in the town of Caesarea on Saturday, adding that he was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties.
The two other drones were intercepted, the Israeli military said, adding that a total of more than 100 rockets were fired across northern Israel from Lebanon, killing one person and injuring at least 13 others.
Iran-aligned Hezbollah has been trading fire with Israel since last October last year.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman, Jordan because Al Jazeera has been banned in Israel, said the Israeli authorities are treating the attack on Netanyahu’s house as an “assassination attempt”.
“Of course, there is no way to verify that or to say for sure that this was an assassination attempt, but that’s how gravely the Israeli security establishment is viewing this incident,” she said.