Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hezbollah for a drone strike targeting his house in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea.
“The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake,” Netanyahu wrote on X.
The attack came after Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this week and Hezbollah vowed to escalate fighting against Israel.
Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said at least 73 people were killed in strikes that hit several houses in a town in northern Gaza Saturday evening.
Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s intelligence HQ in Beirut
Israel says its air force carried out an attack against a Hezbollah command center in Beirut early Sunday.
An army statement said Israeli jets also attacked an underground workshop for producing weapons.
The information could not be independently verified.
A video of the attack posted by the Israeli army on social media appeared to show a multi-story building being struck.
Earlier on Sunday, Lebanese state media reported two Israeli strikes in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh in southern Beirut.
Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs after evacuation warning: state media
The Israeli army ordered civilians located near buildings it said were “affiliated with Hezbollah” in southern Beirut to evacuate early Sunday.
The warning was followed by airstrikes in the area, according to Lebanese state media.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said Israeli warplanes carried out two strikes, one of which hit a residential building in the neighborhood of Haret Hreik.
Earlier, the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee issued an “urgent warning” on social media for civilians near specific buildings in the neighborhoods of Haret Hreik and Hadath to relocate.
“You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF (Israeli army) will work against in the near future,” he said.
“For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate the building and those adjacent to it immediately and move away from it for a distance of no less than 500 meters.”
The reported airstrikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah group of trying to assassinate him by attacking his residence.
