Saturday’s drone attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house came much closer to assassinating the Israeli leader than previously disclosed. The drone launched by Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group ‘directly hit’ Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bedroom window, the Israeli security services revealed Tuesday.
“The direct hit on Netanyahu’s house precisely struck the bedroom window,” the Israel Hayom newspaper reported Tuesday. “The impact scattered drone debris across the swimming pool and yard.” No casualties were reported from the terrorist drone strike. Netanyahu and his family were not at home during the attack.
The Israeli news website YNET published the newly released details of the failed assassination attempt:
Israel confirmed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence was hit by an attack drone on Saturday. The house sustained minor damage. Netanyahu and his family were not home at the time of the attack.”Iran tried to assassinate Israel’s prime minister and will not escape responsibility,” a spokesperson for the government said 72 hours after Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack.Security measures around Israeli leaders and senior officials have been increased since the strike.Earlier this morning, the Saudi Al Hadath channel reported quoting sources, that Israel confirmed Iranian involvement in the launching of an attack drone on Netanyahu’s home. “Officials in Iran’s embassy in Beirut are involved in an attempted assassination of Netanyahu,” the channel said.
Hours after the attempted assassination by Hezbollah, Netanyahu released a video pledging to continue the military operation against Iran-backed proxy terrorist groups. “We’re continuing our battle with Iran’s other terrorist proxies – we’re going to win this war,” he said.
The drone attack came just two days after the Israeli military eliminated Hamas chief and main architect of the October 7 attack, Yahya Sinwar. In late September, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut.
As the Israeli ground operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon entered its fourth week, the IDF appears to have stepped strikes on terrorist targets. The Israeli Air Forces (IAF) struck the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiya and parts of Beirut.
Overnight, Israeli fighter jets “struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities, command centers, and additional terror targets in Beirut. Some of the targets were located underground and included aerial and naval equipment used by Hezbollah to carry out terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday morning.
The Israeli airstrikes also destroyed a Hezbollah naval base in Beirut. “Among the targets in Beirut was a central base of Hezbollah’s Naval Unit, where Hezbollah stored military speed boats, a training center, and an area to conduct experiments,” the Israeli military disclosed. “The Naval Unit’s speed boats were intended to be used in attacks on Israeli Navy vessels and against naval and strategic targets within Israel’s territorial waters.”
The Israeli Air Force “struck approximately ten command and control centers belonging to various Hezbollah military units, including command centers of the Radwan Forces, in the area of Al Housh in southern Lebanon,” the IDF said Tuesday afternoon.
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