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 on Saturday, which referred to a “serious incident”.
“Around 7:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. GMT), two flares landed in the courtyard in front of the Prime Minister’s residence,” the police and the Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence service, said in a joint statement. “The Prime Minister and his family were not in the house,” they added, referring to “a serious incident” and “a dangerous escalation”. The origin of the shots was not specified.
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, Mr. Netanyahu then accused “Hezbollah, an ally of Iran”, of having “attempted” to assassinate him and his wife, ensuring that they “paid a high price”.
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 attack on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil, which triggered the war in Gaza.
