JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government said a drone attacked the prime minister's home on Saturday, although there were no injuries, as Iran's supreme leader vowed that Hamas would continue its fight afterward Killing the mastermind of the deadly attack on October 7th last year.

Sirens blared in Israel, warning of fire from Lebanon. The military said dozens of projectiles were fired. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The office said the drone targeted his home in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea, even though neither he nor his wife were home.

The barrage comes as Israel considers its expected response to a disaster Iranian attack earlier this month and is stepping up its offensives against Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In Gaza, Israeli forces fired on hospitals in the devastated northern part of the Palestinian enclave, and attacks in the strip killed more than 50 people, including children, in less than 24 hours, hospital officials and an Associated Press reporter there reported.

In September, the Houthis rebelled in Yemen a ballistic missile was fired toward Ben-Gurion Airport as Netanyahu's plane landed. The rocket was intercepted.

Bombings from Lebanon target northern Israel

In addition to the drone fired at Netanyahu's private home, the Israeli military said around 180 projectiles were fired from Lebanon throughout the day on Saturday morning. A 50-year-old man was killed after he was hit by shrapnel in his car in northern Israel and four people were injured, the Israel Health Service said.

In the northern city of Kiryat Ata, sirens wailed as people fled for cover and intercepted missiles exploded in the sky. A rocket struck the area and Associated Press reporters saw burned cars and a damaged building. Itzik Billet, commander of the Haifa region, said nine people were slightly injured.

The Israeli Fire Department also said it was battling several fires caused by rockets in the Shlomi area, less than a kilometer from the Lebanese border.

Israel War with the Lebanese Hezbollah – an Iran-backed ally of Hamas – has intensified in recent weeks. Hezbollah said Friday it plans to launch a new phase of fighting by sending more guided missiles and exploding drones to Israel. The militant group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike At the end of September, Israel sent ground troops to Lebanon in early October.

On Saturday, the Israeli military again issued evacuation warnings for two buildings in Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hriek. Israel has issued almost daily warnings urging people to leave buildings and villages in parts of Lebanon. The fighting has displaced more than a million people, including around 400,000 children.

Israel also said on Saturday it had killed Hezbollah's deputy commander in the southern city of Bint Jbeil. The army said Nasser Rashid oversaw attacks against Israel.

An Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle on a main road north of Beirut on Saturday, killing two people, according to Lebanon's health ministry. It was unclear who was in the car when it was hit.

Israeli attacks rock Gaza as Hamas refuses to release hostages

There is also a stalemate between Israel and Hamaswhich it is fighting in Gaza, with both signaling their opposition to ending the war afterwards 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 continued despite killing other militant Palestinian leaders before him.

“Hamas is alive and will remain alive,” Khamenei said in his first comments on the killing.

Since Israel claimed on Thursday that Sinwar had died, confirmed by a senior Hamas official On Friday, Hamas reiterated its stance that the hostages kidnapped from Israel a year ago will not be released until there is a ceasefire in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli troops. The firm position was pushed back against a statement by Netanyahu that his country's military would and will continue fighting until the hostages are released stay in Gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.

Sinwar was the main architect of the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023, which killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped another 250. Israel's retaliation Offensive in Gaza has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, which do not distinguish between combatants and civilians but say more than half of the dead were women and children.

More attacks occurred in Gaza on Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that Israeli attacks hit the upper floors of the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahiya and that forces opened fire on the hospital building and its courtyard, causing panic among patients and medical staff.

At Al-Awda Hospital in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, strikes broke out on the top floors of the building, injuring several staff members, the hospital said in a statement. Three houses in Jabaliya were hit overnight on Friday, killing at least 30 people, more than half of them women and children, said Fares Abu Hamza, head of the health ministry's rescue and emergency services. At least 80 people were injured.

According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where the injured were taken, at least 10 people were killed in central Gaza, including two children, when a house was hit in the town of Zawayda. Another attack killed 11 people, all from the same family, in the Maghazi refugee camp, the same hospital said. Associated Press journalists counted bodies at the hospital from both attacks.

A United Nations school housing displaced people in western Gaza City was also hit, killing several people, according to Hamas-led civil defense first responders.

The attacks crippled internet networks in the northern Gaza Strip, Paltel, the Palestinian communications company, said on Facebook on Saturday.

The war has destroyed large parts of Gazadisplaced about 90% of its 2.3 million people, leaving them struggling to find food, water, medicine and fuel.

Chance in Sinwar's death

Sinwar's killing appeared to be a chance front-line encounter with Israeli troops on Wednesday, and it could change the dynamics of the war in Gaza even as Israel continues to push for it Offensive against Hezbollah with ground troops in southern Lebanon and Air strikes in other areas of the country.

Israel is committed to politically destroying Hamas in Gaza, and killing Sinwar was a top military priority. But Netanyahu said in a speech Thursday announcing the killing that “our war is not over yet.”

Still, the governments of Israel's allies and exhausted Gazans expressed hope that Sinwar's death would lead to this pave the way for an end to the fighting.

Israel is still holding families of hostages in the Gaza Strip called on the Israeli government to exploit Sinwar's killing as a way to restart negotiations to bring their loved ones home. There are still around 100 hostages in Gaza, of whom Israel says at least 30 are dead.

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