Hezbollah Says Fires Rocket Salvo at Northern Israel

A man checks his shrapnel-poked car near a building hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Ata in Israel's Haifa district on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
A man checks his shrapnel-poked car near a building hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Ata in Israel's Haifa district on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
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Hezbollah Says Fires Rocket Salvo at Northern Israel

A man checks his shrapnel-poked car near a building hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Ata in Israel's Haifa district on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
A man checks his shrapnel-poked car near a building hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Ata in Israel's Haifa district on October 19, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)

Hezbollah said it fired rockets at northern Israel, including at a military base near the city of Haifa on Saturday after the Israeli army reported a barrage of projectiles launched from Lebanon.

The "large salvo" of advanced rockets hit a military base east of Haifa, said Hezbollah, which has vowed to intensify attacks on Israel weeks into an all-out war that erupted on September 23.

In an earlier statement, the Iran-backed group said it targeted a region north of Haifa city with a rocket salvo.

Five people were injured in Kiryat Ata, in the Haifa district, mostly from shrapnel injuries, said a spokesperson for emergency service provider Magen David Adom.

A rocket damaged a three-storey building and burned two cars in Kiryat Ata, with firefighting teams and ambulances dispatched to the area, AFP footage showed.

The Haifa attacks came as Israel said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in the central Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday.

Netanyahu's office said the Israeli premier and his wife were not in Caesarea during the drone attack and "there were no injuries".

Throughout the morning, sirens blared in Israel as Lebanese fighters Hezbollah launched projectiles from various locations.

The Iran-backed group on Thursday said it was opening a new "escalatory phase" in its war with Israel.

Late last month, Israel dramatically stepped up its air strikes on Lebanon and sent in ground forces after nearly a year of cross-border exchanges.

Lebanon's health ministry said two people were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a vital highway north of Beirut, in the first attack on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year.

Since late September, the war has left at least 1,418 people dead in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real toll is likely higher.



Strike Launched toward Israeli Prime Minister’s House

Israeli security forces secure a road near where Israel's government says a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, Israel Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP)
Israeli security forces secure a road near where Israel's government says a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, Israel Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP)
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Strike Launched toward Israeli Prime Minister’s House

Israeli security forces secure a road near where Israel's government says a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, Israel Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP)
Israeli security forces secure a road near where Israel's government says a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, Israel Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP)

Israel’s government said a drone was launched toward the prime minister’s house Saturday, with no casualties.

Sirens wailed Saturday morning in Israel, warning of incoming fire from Lebanon, with a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, the Israeli government said.

Neither he nor his wife were home and there were no casualties, said his spokesperson in a statement.

The strikes into Israel come as its war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah — a Hamas ally backed by Iran — has intensified in recent weeks.

Hezbollah said Friday that it planned to launch a new phase of fighting by sending more guided missiles and exploding drones into Israel. The armed group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in late September, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier in October.

A standoff is also ensuing between Israel and Hamas, which it’s fighting in Gaza, with both signaling resistance to ending the war after Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar this week.

On Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said Sinwar’s death was a painful loss but noted that Hamas carried on despite the killings of other Palestinian militant leaders before him.

“Hamas is alive and will stay alive,” Khamenei said.