Domestic intelligence said the Israeli prime minister and his family were not in the house at the time of the incident.
Two flares landed in front of the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not on the scene in Caesarea in the center of the country, the Israeli security services announced this Saturday, November 16, who spoke of a “serious incident”.
“Two flares landed in the courtyard in front of the Prime Minister's residence,” said in a statement the police and the Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence services, which clarified that Benjamin Netanyahu and his family were not in the house at the time of the incident described as “serious”.
An “escalation of violence”
The origin of the shots was not specified. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the incident and warned of “an escalation of violence in the public sphere.”
“I have just spoken with the head of the Shin Bet and I insisted on the urgency of investigating” and holding the perpetrators accountable “as quickly as possible,” he said on X.
A drone fired in October
On October 22, a drone was fired in the direction of this same residence and hit a “structure” in Caesarea, the Prime Minister’s office indicated.
Also absent at that time, Benjamin Netanyahu then accused “Hezbollah, an ally of Iran”, of having “attempted” to assassinate him and his wife, ensuring that they “pay a price pupil”.
Three days later, the Lebanese Islamist movement, supported by Tehran, claimed responsibility for the attack. “We announce our full and sole responsibility for the Caesarea operation (…) which targeted the war criminal Netanyahu,” declared Mohammad Afif, head of media relations for the movement.
Israel launched a military offensive in Lebanon in September in order to neutralize Hezbollah in the border regions of the south of the country and thus allow the return, to the north of its own territory, of inhabitants displaced by more than a year of fire. rockets.
The Lebanese movement launched a “support front” for Hamas on October 8, 2023, the day after the unprecedented attacks on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil, which triggered the war in Gaza.
