Netanyahu’s House Bombed 2nd Time in a Month

CROSSFIREARABIA – It’s a second attack on the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in less than a month.

The Saturday night attack through two flash bombs landed in the courtyard of Netanyahu house in Caesarea is being described as a serious incident by Shabak and the Israeli police who quickly opened up an investigation.

The attack is widely trending on the social media with the official line being that Netanyahu and his wife were not in the house at the time and there was little damage.

The incident is being treated as “domestic” with three people arrested and under investigation with reactions  from the leader of the opposition Yair Lapid and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. They all described the attack on Netanyahu’s residence as “redline” but it is difficult to see what they would do about it.

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth said one of the arrested suspects is a senior reserve officer, a brigadier general, who has been active in protests against Netanyahu’s government over the past two years according to Anadolu.

The first attack on Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea was made on 19 October through a drone attack launched from Lebanon targeted Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea claimed by Hezbollah. The attack was described as so precise that it landed in Netanyahu’s bedroom.

This time news reports suggest that the flash bombs either landed in the garden and/or the courtyard of the house.

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Thousands of Israelis Demand Deal, Netanyahu’s Dismissal

Thousands of Israelis protested Saturday, in Tel Aviv, Caesarea and occupied Jerusalem. They demanded a hostage swap deal with Hamas holding the Israeli hostages – with the figure now down to 120 – since 7 October, 2023.

Thousands of Israelis protested in the “Kidnapped Soldiers’ Square” in Tel Aviv, demanding the return of the hostages through a deal with Hamas and the dismissal of the Benjamin Netanyahu’s government through early elections Anadolu reported.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported the demonstration was the largest in Tel Aviv since 7 October.

As well, thousands protested at the Paris Square in the city center of occupied Jerusalem; They also demanded a hostage deal, according to Israeli Channel 12.

And the same was the case in downtown Caesarea where protested marched to Netanyahu’s residence and called for his “immediate” resignation.

Knesset member Gilad Kariv took part in that demonstration where protesters accused Netanyahu and his government of being “responsible” for the deaths of dozens of hostages in Gaza.

Former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who left the now-dissolved War Cabinet, also participated in demonstrations in the “Kiryat Gat” settlement in the Negev, where protesters demanded a hostage swap deal, the Turkish news agency reported.

More than 37,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and nearly 86,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

More than eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

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