Neither Netanyahu nor his wife were at home when the attack occurred, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office said.
The statement states that the drone was aimed at Netanyahu’s residence in the coastal city of Caesarea, which the Qatari news agency Al Araby has also reported. The Israeli military states that the drone hit a building, but without specifying what kind of building.
No one was injured or killed in the attack, according to Netanyahu’s spokesman.
According to the military, two other drones were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force.
Unknown whereabouts
It is not known where Netanyahu was during the attack. According to unconfirmed reports in the online newspaper Walla, Netanyahu left his residence and sought refuge when the flight alarm went off. The message is cited, among others, by the Middle East Monitor, Memo.
Caesarea is a coastal town located between Tel Aviv and Haifa. According to Al Jazeera, it was Netanyahu’s vacation home that was attacked.
Hezbollah announced on the same day that they had fired a large number of rockets at an Israeli military base near Haifa, as well as at the city of Safed in northern Israel.
Over 100 rockets
The Israeli military states that more than 115 projectiles were fired from Lebanon at Israel on Saturday, most of them at northern Israel.
In several Israeli cities, the flight warning went off frequently, and many residents had to seek refuge.
In the city of Acre in northern Israel, a man was killed when shrapnel hit the car he was sitting in, according to the Israeli rescue service. Another five people were wounded by shrapnel in Kiryat Ata, a town in the Haifa district.
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