Hezbollah Takes ‘Full and Sole’ Responsibility of Targeting Netanyahu’s House

Israeli Home Front Command soldiers walk down a street in Caesarea, Israel, October 19, 2024 following a drone attack from Lebanon towards Israel amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. (Reuters)
Israeli Home Front Command soldiers walk down a street in Caesarea, Israel, October 19, 2024 following a drone attack from Lebanon towards Israel amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. (Reuters)
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Hezbollah Takes ‘Full and Sole’ Responsibility of Targeting Netanyahu’s House

Israeli Home Front Command soldiers walk down a street in Caesarea, Israel, October 19, 2024 following a drone attack from Lebanon towards Israel amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. (Reuters)
Israeli Home Front Command soldiers walk down a street in Caesarea, Israel, October 19, 2024 following a drone attack from Lebanon towards Israel amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. (Reuters)

Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Tuesday that there will be no negotiations while fighting continues, and that it held Israel responsible for the wellbeing of the group's fighters who had been captured.

"Hezbollah takes the full and sole responsibility for targeting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's house," Mohammad Afif, the head of the armed group' media office, told a press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Israel said a drone was launched at Netanyahu's holiday home on Saturday. Netanyahu was not there at the time. But he described it as an assassination attempt by "Iran's proxy Hezbollah" and called it a "grave mistake".

Netanyahu’s office said the drone on Saturday targeted his house in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea. Neither he nor his wife was there. It wasn’t clear if the house was hit.



Israel Has Attacked 55 Hospitals, Lebanon’s Health Minister Says

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 25, 2024. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 25, 2024. (AFP)
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Israel Has Attacked 55 Hospitals, Lebanon’s Health Minister Says

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 25, 2024. (AFP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike on Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 25, 2024. (AFP)

Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad said Friday that Israel has carried out attacks on 55 hospitals — 36 of which were directly hit — leaving 12 people dead and 60 wounded.

Abiad told reporters that eight hospitals have been closed while seven are still partially functioning.

He said that paramedic groups have been targeted in different areas, killing 151 people and wounding 212. Of the paramedics killed, eight remain in their ambulances in south Lebanon with Israel’s military preventing anyone from reaching them, he said.

"Attacks against the medical and paramedic sectors in Lebanon are direct and intentional aggressions," Abiad said, adding that Israel’s military claims to have intelligence information on what is happening in Lebanon, thus cannot say that these attacks happened by mistake.

"This is a war crime," Abiad said.