Drone targets Netanyahu’s home; Israeli strikes kill 33 in Gaza

A drone was launched at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesare on Saturday as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East.
Netanyahu was not in the area at the time and there were no casualties, his spokesman said. The Israeli military said the drone attack was part of a barrage of dozens of rockets and several drones that Hezbollah launched into northern Israel on Saturday.
Netanyahu vowed there would be a “heavy price” for such attacks.
“The attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake.” the Israeli leader said in a post on X. “This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.”
The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this week had raised hopes for a de-escalation of the Mideast conflict, but there has been no lessening of tensions in the region. 
The barrage of rockets and drones by Iran-backed Hezbollah came as health officials in Gaza said Israeli strikes had killed 33 people across the territory. Israel has been battling the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip for more than a year.
Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya reiterated the group’s position that no hostages would be released “unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops,” France24 reported. 
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Hamas was alive and will survive despite the death of Sinwar, Reuters reported. “His loss is undoubtedly painful for the Axis of Resistance, but this front did not cease advancing with the martyrdom of prominent figures,” Khamenei said. “Hamas is alive and will remain alive.”
G7 defense ministers meeting in Naples, Italy, on Saturday were expected to focus on escalations in the Middle East as well as the war in Ukraine.