Israel strikes Beirut, Gaza following drone attack on Netanyahu’s home – POLITICO

This follows a drone attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesare on Saturday. Gideon Sa’ar, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, said he holds Lebanon responsible for this attack.

“From the territory of a U.N. member state — Lebanon — an assassination attempt was made on the prime minister of Israel,” Sa’ar wrote on X. “The fact that these attacks were carried out by an Iranian branch  — Hezbollah  — does not absolve Lebanon of its responsibility.”

Netanyahu himself called it an assassination attempt and vowed there would be a “heavy price” for such attacks.

“The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake.” the Israeli leader said in a post on X. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.”

In the Gaza Strip, at least 87 people were killed in Israeli strikes on on the town of Beit Lahiya, according to the territory’s health minister.

The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on the strikes in Beit Lahiya, but said it was “continuing to operate across Gaza in both aerial strikes and ground operations,” according to an Associated Press report.