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Drones fired at Netanyahu's home in northern Israel - strike in coastal city

A drone fired from Lebanon is said to have struck Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hometown, the coastal city of Caesarea, writes AFP. The drone is said to have targeted the prime minister's residence, his spokesperson told Reuters.

The Netanyahus were not at home when it happened, and no one was injured.

A total of three drones were fired from Lebanon, two of which could be shot down, according to the military.

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180 rockets fired from Lebanon - one man dead

A man in his 50s has died and at least nine have been injured in Israel after around 180 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon. This is reported by Israeli media.

According to Haaretz, the rockets were fired from several different locations in southern Lebanon. Some of them were shot down by Israeli air defenses.

According to the Israeli Defense Forces IDF "Hezbollah fires rockets indiscriminately". They have also published a film of damage to a house.

According to Hezbollah, it has fired a "large volley" of advanced rockets that hit a military base east of Haifa.

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Hezbollah's searchers were rigged with "explosive sandwich"

The batteries in the thousands of pagers that exploded around Lebanon in September contained a small but powerful explosive charge and a detonator that is impossible to detect on X-rays. This is stated by sources with access to Reuters.

According to the news agency, Israeli agents built the battery as a three-part sandwich, placing a wafer-thin layer of explosives along with the detonator between two battery cells. The "three-piece sandwich" was then encased in plastic and a metal casing before being inserted into the pagers.

The pagers were delivered to Hezbollah in February - who searched them for explosives but found none. However, one must have noticed that the battery life was lousy, something that later turned out to be due to the fact that a third of the matchbox-sized battery consisted of explosives.

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Another mayor in Lebanon killed in Israeli attack

Five people have died in an Israeli attack on a town in eastern Lebanon. One of the dead is said to be a mayor, reports the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient Today.

Haidar Shahla was the mayor of Sohmor in the Bekaa Valley. At the time he was in the town of Baaloul where a residential building he was in was hit in an attack.

A number of communities in the area were subjected to Israeli shelling from aircraft and artillery.

On Wednesday, the mayor Ahmed Kahil died when the municipal hall in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon was shelled. They had then gathered to discuss emergency aid due to Israel's offensive.