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.



Iraq Says 50 Israeli Warplanes Planes Violated Its Airspace

Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the UN Dr. Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (AFP)
Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the UN Dr. Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (AFP)
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Iraq Says 50 Israeli Warplanes Planes Violated Its Airspace

Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the UN Dr. Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (AFP)
Chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the UN Dr. Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict at the UN headquarters in New York on June 20, 2025. (AFP)

Iraq's representative to the United Nations said 50 Israeli warplanes planes violated Iraqi airspace shortly before a UN meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict on Friday.

Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, charge d'affaires of Iraq's UN mission, told the UN Security Council the aircraft came from the Syrian-Jordanian border areas.

"Twenty airplanes started, followed by 30 airplanes heading to the south of Iraq, and they flew over Basra, Najaf and Karbala cities," he said.

"These violations are violations of international law and the UN Charter," he said, adding: "They also constitute a threat to the sacred sites and regions which might cause strong popular reactions, considering the importance of these holy sites for our peoples."