Jerusalem: Israel's government said a drone was launched toward the prime minister's house Saturday, with no casualties.
Sirens wailed Saturday morning in Israel, warning of incoming fire from Lebanon, with a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, the Israeli government said.
Neither he nor his wife were home and there were no casualties, said his spokesperson in a statement.
The strikes on Israel come as its war with Lebanon's Hezbollah — a Hamas ally backed by Iran — has intensified in recent weeks.
Hezbollah said Friday that it planned to launch a new phase of fighting by sending more guided missiles and exploding drones into Israel. The militant group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in late September, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier in October.
A standoff is also ensuing between Israel and Hamas, which it's fighting in Gaza, with both signalling resistance to ending the war after the death of Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar this week.
On Friday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sinwar's death was a painful loss but noted that Hamas carried on despite the killings of other Palestinian militant leaders before him.
"Hamas is alive and will stay alive," Khamenei said.
FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON HEADS OF STATE AND PRIME MINISTERS
In the backdrop of the latest attack on the Israeli prime minister's home, focus has turned on the assassination attempts on the heads of different countries and their prime ministers over the last several decades. The world leaders who survived such assassination attempts include former US president Donald Trump, Russia President Putin, Ukraine President Zelenskyy and Pakistan former prime minister Imran Khan. Take a look at the failed assassination attempts on world leaders here.
13.07.2024: Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt when a 20-year-old gunman named Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at his campaign rally, killing one spectator and bloodying one of Trump’s ears.
15.05.2024: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico narrowly escaped assassination attempt on his life.
21.11.2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with the British tabloid, said that he’s survived "no fewer" than five or six attempts on his life since Russia invaded Ukraine 2022.
Vladamir Putin: Vladamir Putin survived at least SIX assassination attempts on his life.
15.04.2023: The Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida survived an assassination attempt by a smoke bomb at an outdoor rally in Wakayama city. He was unharmed and no other injuries were reported from the incident.
03.11.2022: Former PM of Pakistan Imran Khan survived an 'assassination attempt' at protest rally in Wazirabad during the 2022 Azadi March II against the Pakistan government. The gunman also injured a number of other PTI leaders and killed a supporter.
10.02.2022: Assailants struck Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah's car with bullets but he escaped unharmed.
02.01.2022: A failed attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, took place at a church in the city of Gonaives during a mass dedicated to the 218th anniversary of the country's independence, the VTV broadcaster reported. According to the report, armed people opened fire at the prime minister. At least one person was killed and several others wounded. Henry was not injured.
07.11.2021: Iraq’s outgoing prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has survived an assassination attempt, the Iraqi military said, after an exploding drone targeted the premier’s residence in Baghdad.
2005 : A man threw a grenade during a speech by visiting President George W. Bush in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2005.
30.07.2004: Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Shaukat Aziz had escaped unhurt in a suicide attack on his election rally at Fateh Jang, Attock District.
25.12.2003: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped when two huge bombs went off in the city of Rawalpindi, just minutes after his motorcade had passed by. At least 15 people, including two suicide bombers, were killed.
14.12.2003: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf survived an elimination attempt when a powerful bomb went off minutes after his highly-guarded convoy crossed a bridge in Rawalpindi. Musharraf was apparently saved by a jamming device in his limousine that prevented the remote controlled explosives from blowing up the bridge as his convoy passed over it.
15.07.2002: French President Jacques Chirac survived an assassination attempt after an assailant fired a shot at him but missed as he was reviewing troops on Bastille Day.
18.12.1999 : This Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga narrowly escaped a suicide bomb attack that wounded her and killed at least 14 people three days before a presidential election.
1993: H.W. Bush: A plot to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in 1993 was foiled.
1994: President Bill Clinton was the target of a failed assassination attempt in 1994.
30.07.1987: A Sri Lankan Navy sailor Wijemuni Vijitha Rohana de Silva hit Gandhi with his rifle butt in Colombo, while he was inspecting Guard of Honour at the Sri Lankan President’s House at Colombo.
12.10.1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called the "Iron Lady", narrowly escaped a huge explosion at a hotel she was staying at in Brighton, England. A long-delay bomb had been planted at the hotel ahead of the Conservative Party conference by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Five people were killed and 34 injured in the blast.
30.05.1981 : John Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at the US president Ronald Reagan in Washington, hitting Reagan and three others. The president was seriously wounded but recovered after emergency surgery. The other three victims also survived. Hinckley was immediately arrested and kept in institutional psychiatric care until 2016, 12 years after Reagan’s death.
