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 Lodges UN Complaint over Israel Using its Airspace to Attack Iran

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
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Iraq Lodges UN Complaint over Israel Using its Airspace to Attack Iran

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2024. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Iraq has condemned Israel's use of its airspace to attack neighboring Iran in a protest letter sent to United Nations chief Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council, Baghdad said Monday.
A statement from government spokesman Bassim Alawadi said the letter condemns "the Zionist entity's blatant violation of Iraq's airspace and sovereignty by using Iraqi airspace to carry out an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran on October 26".
Alawadi said the Iraqi foreign ministry would also bring up "this violation" in talks with the United States, Israel's close ally and top arms provider.
Israel on Saturday launched air strikes on military sites in Iran, risking further regional escalation more than a year into the Gaza war and a month into the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon.
The Israeli raid was in retaliation to an Iranian missile attack on October 1, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
The Iranian military said that some Israeli aircraft had fired a "small number of long-range missiles... from a distance", inside the US-patrolled airspace of Iraq.
Baghdad has close ties with Tehran but also a strategic partnership with Washington, which has troops in Iraq as part of an international coalition.
While the Iraqi government has sought to avoid being dragged into the escalating regional conflict, some pro-Iran factions have launched attacks on US forces in the region and claimed responsibility for drones sent to Israel.
One Tehran-aligned group, the influential Kataeb Hezbollah, condemned on Sunday the Israeli use of Iraqi airspace to attack Iran as a "dangerous precedent".
It accused the United States of being complicit in the Israeli attack, warning both of a response to this "aggression".