An explosion was heard in Caesarea on Saturday morning after a drone launched from Lebanon slammed into a building in the city, the IDF said. No injuries have so far been reported.
Police arrived to locate the scene of the fall. Around the same time, sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, but Israeli media reported that no notification was sent to the Home Front Command app for users in the area.
Two other drones launched alongside were reportedly intercepted. The incident triggered alarms in the Glilot military base, but the military later determined that drones were not in the area.
One drone towards Caesarea was reportedly targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence, Israeli media reported, citing the Saudi TV news channel Al-Hadath. The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement saying that Netanyahu and his wife were not at the location and there were no other casualties reported.
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Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims attack on North, vows escalation
Earlier, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed credit after a drone launched from the east was detected crashing into the Golan Heights in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The IDF reported the crash after sirens sounded in the area and noted that the drone had crossed into Israel from Syria, and no injuries were reported as a result of the crash.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq vowed further escalation.
Later that morning
Later on Saturday morning, drone alarms were activated in Gan Yashia, Olesh, Ametz, Bat Hefer, Yad Hana, and Barotaim in Emek Hefer, west of Netanya.
More drone sirens sounded again around 7:00 a.m. in Kiryat Yam and numerous other localities in the Haifa area, and a half hour later, further sirens sounded in Tiberias and the city's surrounding areas.
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Israeli media reported that two young men were lightly and moderately wounded by shrapnel in a rocket barrage towards Haifa and the Western Galilee.
The Western Galilee also saw four people wounded from Hezbollah rocket fire in an open road, including a 30-year-old man in moderate condition with shrapnel injuries and three others in light condition, according to the MDA. Paramedics at the scene evacuated them to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
In addition, a rocket crashed in Kiryat Ata and caused damage to property and a car parked next to a residential building.
Ten people were later wounded in the city from attacks from Lebanon, including a 28-year-old man in light-to-moderate condition, a man and woman both around 40 years old in light condition with shrapnel injuries, and a 25-year-old woman in light condition.
Among the ten, five were being treated for anxiety from the incident, the MDA stated.
The IDF stated that 55 launches were detected from Lebanon into Israel between 10:22 and 10:37 a.m.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.