Flash bombs fired into garden of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel home
It comes as Israel attacks killed six people, including three children, in Eastern Lebanon according to the Lebanese health ministry
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Neither Netanyahu nor his family were present and there was no damage reported, it added in a statement.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog condemned the incident in a post on X and said an investigation was underway.
“The incitement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crosses all boundaries. Throwing a flash bomb into his house tonight is crossing another red line,” Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also said on X.
Adding: “Today it’s a light bomb, tomorrow it’s live fire. The incitement against Netanyahu and his family must stop. I expect that the Shin Bet and the police will get to the suspects who committed the act soon.”
In October, a drone was launched towards the premier’s home in Caesarea, without causing any harm.
Neither Mr Netanyahu nor his wife were at home in the coastal town at the time, his spokesperson said in a statement.
Hours after the strike, Mr Netanyahu wrote in a statement: “The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake. This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.”
He vowed Iran and its proxies will “pay a heavy price,” adding Israel will continue to “eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them”.
To the north, Israeli forces have been trading fire with Lebanon’s armed Hezbollah group since October, 2023.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Israeli airstrikes on the village of Khreibeh in the Baalbek District of eastern Lebanon killed six people, including three children, and injured 11 others, the Lebanese health ministry said.
Among the injured were five children, two of whom were in critical condition, the ministry said.
Strikes earlier on Saturday killed two medics in south Lebanon, including one in Borj Rahal and another in Kfartebnit, and injured four other rescue workers, with two still missing, the ministry said.
Israeli airstrikes also targeted areas of the southern suburbs of Beirut controlled by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah for a fifth consecutive day, with at least 15 strikes on Saturday, according to two security sources.
The Israeli military said the attacks were directed at Hezbollah infrastructure, including a weapons storage facility and a command centre.
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