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Iran rejects Israeli accusations over attack on Netanyahu’s home

Sunday, 20 October 2024 7:25 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 20 October 2024 7:25 AM ]

The photos show the aftermath of a drone attack on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2024. (Via X)

The Iranian permanent mission to the United Nations has strongly dismissed the Israeli accusations against Tehran after a drone targeted the house of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The mission rejected any Iranian involvement in Saturday’s attack, which Netanyahu had blamed on what he called “the agents of Iran.”

“We have already responded to the Israeli regime, and the action in question has been carried out by Hezbollah [resistance movement] in Lebanon,” it said, referring to Iran’s October 1 missile attack against Israeli military and intelligence bases that came in response to the occupying regime’s barbaric acts of assassination against the resistance front’s top leaders.

Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea, in the north of the occupied territories, was hit by a drone on Saturday morning, causing superficial damage and no casualties.

Israeli media reported that three drones were launched from Lebanon in the attack, two of which were intercepted, but the third reached Caesarea and exploded without triggering an alert.

Netanyahu and his wife were not home at the time of the strike.

He said those who tried to “assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake,” threatening them with “a heavy price.”

Hezbollah drone hits Netanyahu’s private residence amid interception failure

A drone launched by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah hit Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, amid an interception failure.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei also said that the Zionist regime, which has been founded on “lies and the distortion of facts,” has always been spreading falsehoods.

Hezbollah has not claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place one day after the resistance group announced a new phase of its anti-Israel operations.

Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

At least 2,448 people have been killed and 11,471 others injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon so far, according to the country’s health ministry.

Last month, the criminal regime assassinated Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike on southern Beirut.

Since then, Hezbollah has increased its retaliatory strikes against Israeli targets and vowed to continue its fight in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon.

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