Drone targets Israeli prime minister’s house as strikes in Gaza kill 50

The Israeli authorities said a drone was launched toward the premier minister's location Saturday, with nary casualties, arsenic Iran's ultimate person vowed that Hamas would proceed its combat against Israel pursuing the killing of the mastermind of past year's deadly Oct. 7 attack.

Sirens wailed Saturday greeting successful Israel, informing of incoming occurrence from Lebanon, including a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house successful Caesarea, the Israeli authorities said. Neither helium nor his woman were location and determination were nary casualties, said his spokesperson successful a statement.

Meanwhile, successful Gaza, much than 50 people, including children, person been killed successful respective Israeli strikes, successful little than 24 hours, according to infirmary officials and an Associated Press reporter.

In September, Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a ballistic rocket toward Ben Gurion Airport erstwhile Netanyahu's level was landing. The rocket was intercepted.

In summation to the drone launched astatine Netanyahu's residence, Israel's subject said immoderate 55 projectiles were fired successful 2 abstracted barrages astatine bluish Israel from Lebanon connected Saturday morning. Four radical were injured, 1 of who had mean wounds from falling shrapnel, said Israel's aesculapian services.

Israel's exigency services said a 50-year-old antheral was killed aft being deed by shrapnel portion sitting successful his car successful bluish Israel. In a abstracted statement, the exigency services said 4 radical were injured from the strikes. It was unclear if the antheral killed was 1 of the injured.

Israel's war with Lebanon's Hezbollah — a Hamas state backed by Iran — has intensified successful caller weeks. Hezbollah said Friday that it planned to motorboat a caller signifier of warring by sending much guided missiles and exploding drones into Israel. The militant group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed successful an Israeli airstrike in precocious September, and Israel sent crushed troops into Lebanon earlier successful October.

Israel besides said Saturday it killed Hezbollah's lawman commandant successful the confederate municipality of Bint Jbeil. The service said Nasser Rashid supervised attacks against Israel

In Lebanon, the wellness ministry said an Israeli airstrike Saturday deed a conveyance connected a main road northbound of Beirut, sidesplitting 2 people. It was unclear who was successful the car erstwhile it was struck.

A standoff is besides ensuing between Israel and Hamas, which it's warring successful Gaza, with some signaling absorption to ending the warfare aft the death of Hamas' person Yahya Sinwar this week. On Friday, Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sinwar's decease was a achy nonaccomplishment but noted that Hamas carried connected contempt the killings of different Palestinian militant leaders earlier him.

"Hamas is live and volition enactment alive," Khamenei said.

Since Israel claimed Sinwar's decease Thursday, confirmed by a apical Hamas official Friday, Hamas has reiterated its stance that the hostages taken from Israel a twelvemonth agone volition not beryllium released until determination is simply a cease-fire successful Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops. The staunch presumption pushed backmost against a connection by Netanyahu that his country's subject volition support warring until the hostages are released, and will remain successful Gaza to forestall a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.

Sinwar was the main designer of the 2023 Hamas raid connected Israel that killed immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped different 250. Israel's retaliatory offensive successful Gaza has killed implicit 42,000 Palestinians, according to section wellness authorities, who bash not separate combatants from civilians but accidental much than fractional the dormant are women and children.

More strikes pounded Gaza connected Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said successful a connection that Israeli strikes deed the precocious floors of the Indonesian Hospital successful Beit Lahiya, and that forces opened occurrence astatine the hospital's gathering and its courtyard, causing panic among patients and aesculapian staff.

At Al-Awda infirmary successful Jabaliya, successful bluish Gaza, strikes deed the building's apical floors, injuring respective unit members, the infirmary said successful a statement. Three houses successful Jabaliya were struck overnight Friday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 30 people, much than fractional of them women and children, said Fares Abu Hamza, caput of the wellness ministry's ambulance and exigency service. At slightest 80 radical were injured.

In cardinal Gaza, astatine slightest 10 radical were killed, including 2 children, erstwhile a location was deed successful the municipality of Zawayda, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir al-Balah, wherever the casualties were taken. Another onslaught killed 11 people, each from the aforesaid family, successful the Maghazi exile camp, the aforesaid infirmary said. Associated Press journalists counted the bodies from some strikes astatine the hospital.

The strikes knocked retired net networks successful bluish Gaza, said Paltel, the Palestinian communications company, connected Facebook Saturday.

The war has destroyed immense swaths of Gaza, displaced astir 90% of its colonisation of 2.3 cardinal people, and near them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.

Sinwar's sidesplitting appeared to beryllium a accidental front-line brushwood with Israeli troops connected Wednesday, and it could displacement the dynamics of the warfare successful Gaza adjacent arsenic Israel presses its offensive against Hezbollah with crushed troops successful confederate Lebanon and airstrikes successful different areas of the country.

Israel has pledged to destruct Hamas politically successful Gaza, and sidesplitting Sinwar was a apical subject priority. But Netanyahu said successful a code Thursday announcing the sidesplitting that "our warfare is not yet ended."

Still, the governments of Israel's allies and exhausted residents of Gaza expressed anticipation that Sinwar's decease would pave the way for an extremity to the fighting.

In Israel, families of hostages inactive held successful Gaza demanded the Israeli authorities usage Sinwar's killing as a mode to restart negotiations to bring location their loved ones. There are astir 100 hostages remaining successful Gaza, astatine slightest 30 of whom Israel says are dead.