No one hurt; PM and wife were not at home; unconfirmed foreign reports claim house sustained minor damage; no sirens sounded; PM says those behind attack ‘made a bitter mistake’

A drone launched from Lebanon struck the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea on Saturday.

The Israeli prime minister and his wife were not home at the time of the strike, his office said. The episode highlighted the challenge drones pose to Israel’s air defenses.

The Israeli government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, though there were no casualties, as Iran’s supreme leader vowed Hamas would continue its fight following the killing of Yahya Sinwar,

A drone launched by the Hezbollah militia from Lebanon that reportedly crashed into a building in the Israeli coastal town of Caesarea was targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a government spokesman told dpa on Saturday.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Saturday that a drone was launched from Lebanon toward Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea. Netanyahu and his wife were not home at the time of the incident and no casualties were reported,

Netanyahu described the drone strike as “a grave mistake” and warned that Israel would continue its military operations against Iran’s proxies. Gideon Sa’ar, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet,