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Drone strike launched at Netanyahu’s house as ******* hits hospitals in Gaza – National

JERUSALEM (AP) — The ******** government said a drone targeted the prime minister’s house Saturday, though there were no casualties, as Iran’s supreme leader vowed ****** would continue its ****** following the 

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 of last year’s deadly Oct. 7 *******.

Sirens wailed in ******* warning of incoming ***** from Lebanon. The military said dozens of projectiles were launched. ******** Prime Minister 

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 office said the drone targeted his house in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea, though neither he nor his wife were home.

The barrage comes as ******* considers its expected response to an 

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 and presses its offensives against ****** militants in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In Gaza, ******** forces fired at hospitals in the battered northern part of the ************ enclave, and strikes in the strip ******* more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, according to hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter there.

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 toward Ben Gurion Airport when Netanyahu’s plane was landing. The missile was intercepted.

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In addition to the drone launched at Netanyahu’s private residence, *******’s military said some 180 projectiles were fired throughout the day from Lebanon on Saturday morning. A 50-year-old man was ******* after being hit by shrapnel while sitting in his car in northern *******, and four people were injured, *******’s medical services said.

In the northern city of Kiryat Ata, sirens blared as people ran for cover and intercepted missiles exploded in the sky. One rocket landed in the area, and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and a damaged building. Itzik Billet, commander for the Haifa area, said nine people were lightly injured.

The ******** ***** service also said it was battling several blazes resulting from missiles in the Shlomi area, less than a mile (1 kilometre) from the Lebanese border.

*******’s 

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 — a ****** 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 *******. The militant group’s longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was 

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 in late September, and ******* sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier in October.

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On Saturday, *******’s military issued fresh evacuation warnings for two buildings in Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hriek. ******* has issued near-daily warnings for people to leave buildings and villages across parts of Lebanon. The fighting has displaced more than 1 million people, including some 400,000 children.

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******* also said Saturday it ******* Hezbollah’s deputy commander in the southern town of Bint Jbeil. The army said Nasser Rashid supervised attacks against *******.

In Lebanon, the health ministry said an ******** airstrike Saturday hit a vehicle on a main highway north of Beirut, ******** two people. It was unclear who was in the car when it was struck.

******** strikes pound Gaza as ****** rejects ******** release

A standoff is also ensuing 

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, which it’s fighting in Gaza, with both signalling resistance to ending the war after the

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 this week.

On Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sinwar’s ****** was a painful loss but noted that ****** carried on despite the killings of other ************ militant leaders before him.

“****** is alive and will stay alive,” Khamenei said in his first comments on the ********.

Since 

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, 

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 Friday, ****** has reiterated its stance that the hostages taken from ******* a year ago will not be released until there is a cease-***** in Gaza and a withdrawal of ******** troops. The staunch position pushed back against a statement by Netanyahu that his country’s military will keep fighting until the hostages are released, and will 

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 to prevent a severely weakened ****** from rearming.

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Sinwar was the chief architect of the 2023 ****** raid on ******* that ******* some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250. *******’s retaliatory 

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 has ******* over 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish combatants from civilians but say more than half the ***** are women and children.

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More strikes pounded Gaza on Saturday. The ************ Health Ministry said in a statement that ******** strikes hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, and that forces opened ***** at the hospital’s building and its courtyard, causing panic among patients and medical staff.

At Al-Awda hospital in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, strikes hit the building’s top floors, injuring several staff members, the hospital said in a statement. Three houses in Jabaliya were struck overnight Friday, ******** at least 30 people, more than half of them women and children, said Fares Abu Hamza, head of the health ministry’s ambulance and emergency service. At least 80 people were injured.

In central Gaza, at least 10 people were *******, including two children, when a house was hit in the town of Zawayda, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken. Another strike ******* 11 people, all from the same family, in the Maghazi ******** camp, the same hospital said. Associated Press journalists counted the bodies from both strikes at the hospital.

A ******* Nations school sheltering displaced people in the west of Gaza City, was also hit, ******** several people, according to the ******-run civil defense first responders.

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The strikes knocked out internet networks in northern Gaza, said Paltel, the ************ communications company, on

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Saturday.

The war 

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, displaced about 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, and left them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.

Opportunity in Sinwar’s ******

Sinwar’s ******** appeared to be a chance front-line encounter with ******** troops on Wednesday, and it could shift the dynamics of the war in Gaza even as ******* presses its 

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 with ground troops in southern Lebanon and 

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 of the country.

******* has pledged to ******** ****** politically in Gaza, and ******** Sinwar was a top military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech Thursday announcing the ******** that “our war is not yet ended.”

Still, the governments of *******’s allies and exhausted residents of Gaza expressed hope that Sinwar’s ****** would 

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 for an end to the fighting.

In *******, families of hostages still held in Gaza 

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 as a way to restart negotiations to bring home their loved ones. There are about 100 hostages remaining in Gaza, at least 30 of whom ******* says are *****.

Associated Press reporters Jack Jeffery from Ramallah, West Bank and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Lebanon contributed to this report.

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