File image.
Israel has held Iran responsible for the October 19 suspected Hezbollah drone attack on the house of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Three drones were launched from Lebanon in the attack targeting Netanyahu’s House in the central Israeli town of Caesarea. Two were intercepted over the areas of Rosh Hanikra and Nahariya, but the third managed to reach the highly-secured house. The premier and his wife were not home at the time of the attack.
Following the drone attack, Netanyahu said in a statement later that “the agents of Iran who tried to assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake.”
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also said that the attack was essentially on “the State of Israel and its government symbols.” He warned that Israel’s security establishment would “continue to attack any terrorist actors and will strike with force any enemy that harmed or tries to harm the State of Israel.”
“Our actions all over the Middle East have proven this to date, and will prove it in the future as well,” the defense minister said. “The attempts of the Hezbollah organization to discourage us and prevent us from achieving the goals of the war will not succeed.”
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, meanwhile, said that Iran, “by means of its proxy Hezbollah,” had made “a big mistake” by attacking Netanyahu’s house.
“Doing so was a big mistake and they will pay a price,” Ohana said. “In my opinion, incidentally, after they pay the price they’ll be sorry they ever learned to fly a paper plane, never mind a drone.”
Responding to these accusations, Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations said in a statement that it had “already responded to the Israeli regime” and that “the action in question has been carried out by Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari didn’t mention Iran while addressing the attack at a press conference. Instead, the spokesman warned that fighting against Hezbollah “would only intensify.”
“This morning, three drones infiltrated from Lebanon. Two were intercepted, and the third hit a building in Caesarea, in an attempt to target the prime minister,” Hagari said, adding that the incident was under further investigation.
“We are fighting Hezbollah with determination. Because of this attempt, and the harm to Israeli civilians, the fighting will only intensify,” he added.
The attack comes as the clashes between Israel and Hezbollah continue to escalate, with the death toll on the Lebanese site surpassing 2,400.
The Israeli accusations against Iran are likely meant to serve two main goals, first add legitimacy to the awaited Israeli response to the October 1 Iranian missile attack, and second justifying the expansion of Israel’s ongoing assassination campaign to include senior Iranian officials.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
caesarea and hertzliya are nice targets. its funny that the jews stuck with roman names, given that the romans destroyed their first temple
destroyed it and infiltrated their belive in one god. now they define themselfes as atheistic jews. what a wierd contradiction.
what jews? they are euro, ussan and russian khazar neanderthal colonial thieves destroying the semitic people of palestine.
visto che assassina tutti la prossima volta mirate bene e informatevi dove si nasconde.
blah, blah,blah…wah, wah, wah…says the cry-baby liars. up yours says iran. yes, there’s more to come says hezbollah. oh, and send more merkavas, they roast so well in the cool autumn air. oooh, that smell.
this was the 2nd attempt to take out nutteryahoo in a few days. 3rd time lucky. give shlomo a taste of his own medicine and listen to him squeal.
please iran/resistance, show this bastarrrrds whom they have messed with. this is only the beginning. cut their tongues by targeting even more of their bigheaded monkeyleaders. they kill your leaders and dare to squeak like pigs afterwards? they began this and they have to eat it up.
nazis gonna nazi.
with drone warfare netanyahu is on the path to rejoin satan.
yep, iran and hezbollah and the iraqi resistence and the houthis have the measure on the iron doom and can easily finish off the jews. meanwhile, hezbollah should continue to send their low flying drones heavily loaded with high grade explosives against maketplaces and the homes of netanyahu till they have a bulls eye hit on the vermin himself and his wife as well. iran is sitting on the hormuz shut down button and the low iq- yanks haven’t brought anything of value to the table!
the israelis shot that missile to create the conditions for american involvement in this dangerous escalation by the madmen who control palestine.
there is no alternative explanation that makes any sense at all.
…because iran denies responsibility. besides, if iran had done it they would have made sure of the hit by using a high value weapon to ensure the success of their mission.
iran has hyperzonic missiles that the jews iron dome, soon doom, can’t handle and which opens the occupied territory to attacks whereas the jews have a much harder issue to solve – how to get to iranand find worthwhile installations to attack. they can’t use airspace over saudi and uae etc so where are they going to fill up their f35s for a return trip.
the disunited states are similarly limited as the jews. down thevread sea and rounding jemen and oman refuelling over the
red sea – longway to fly. iraq possible but the iraqi resistence will be awake snd waiting. and the hormuz straight is always an option for iran. good bye us economy.
in lebanon hezbollah has developed low flying drones, heavily loaded with military grade explosives, sneaking under the jews radars going fot the civilian life in illegaaly occupied palestine!
likely bullshit from zatan’yahoo.
google the expert very recent analysis from indian retired major- general bakshi..
bibi’s family have all been revisionist zionism for decades. his grandfather was involved in the assassination of haim arlosoroff by zionist opponents: the maximalist zionists. haim was killed in 1933. his crime: organising cooperation between jews and arabs. what israel is now doing is the culmination of the internal struggle where the maximalists are now firmly in charge and the greater israel land grab is well under way.
yea boy, iran is shaking in it’s boots about that, like they give a rats ass what head demon yahoo and his band of deformed, genocidal demons say.
i read this and think. it might be easier to, fly a drone from gaza or the west bank. paragliding from gaza a year ago. israel has high tech. show me it came from iran. it didn’t it’s the iranian/saudi feud. israel is sided with saudi. is everyone blind? saudis need oil at 100usd a barrel or else their economy goes to pot. it’s under 100 now.
the shlomo like a drunken gimp in a bar brawl shouts and lunges threatening to hurt somebody…but all the time begging to “hold me back”. it’s time shlomo shut up or put up and tries pulling this crap on iran, a real country with a real army. ussa can’t even help itself let alone its vicious mangy pitbull that has fouled up the m.e just once too often. as scott ritter says the satanic sewer is about to blow hence the total desperation of these monsters.
oy vey! my house is trashed by hezbollah! it will cost all my shekels to fix it. oy vey! this is pure anti shmemitism!