Israel retaliate after drone strike on Netanyahu's house | LBC

Any expectation that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar would precipitate a ceasefire have 'evaporated' in recent days, with the conflict in the Middle East rumbling on.

Matthew Wright speaks to international affairs expert Owen Bennett Jones, who fears the killing will continue for 'another year at least'.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described a Hezbollah drone attack on his house as an 'assassination attempt' and a 'grave mistake'. Though no casualties resulted from the attack, dozens are reported dead in ensuing strikes on refugee camps in Gaza.

Netanyahu insists the drone attack "will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future."

"I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: Anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price. We will continue to eliminate the terrorists and those who dispatch them."

"We will bring our hostages home from Gaza. And we will return our citizens who live on our Northern border safely to their homes."

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[rubbishman]

The israelis couldn't care less about their "hostages".

[BeowulfBeowulf-mf]

Under international law an illegal occupier has no right to self defence.

[mslondonsuleyman]

You can’t keep people in a open air prison and not expect them to fight it’s simple

[maximemaxime]

Not his house - belonged to a Palestinian doctor. His family stole it in 1948.

[TazBo-wdig]

Kids being blown to bits and IDF dancing with kids clothes on. What a sick army

[marktucker]

Yeah but at least Keir Starmer phoned Netanyahu to give him his best wishes, so we in the UK are doing EVERY THING that we can to help bring about an end.... The guy used to be a human rights lawyer no less, hideous. Stop letting him get away with it

[cristinapiccoli]

Massacring civilians is called retaliation???? It's a war crime ....LBC, grow a pair....

[bayzidahammed]

When Hong Kong demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong that's considered heroism in the American press.

When in Myanmar demonstrators throw slingshot stones at the army, they're considered to be heroes in the Western press.

When Palestinian children throw sticks, stones and rocks at the oppressive Israeli army, they're called terrorists.'

- Dr. Gabor Mate.

[nopenope]

It's not Netanyahus house, it belongs to a Palestinian doctor named Tawfiq Kanaan.

[dwbsai]

The strategy was always to use October 7th as an excuse to make Gaza uninhabitable...you've got Israeli politicians talking about resettlement...and it's not new some of them have been saying it for years...and they won't stop there. Take Gaza, then the West Bank, Lebanon ...parts of Syria...Israel really are looking for piece (a piece of land here and a piece of land there)...

[Gauch]

By retaliating for a Hezbollah attack against Gaza, Netanyahu has shown that in effect, all the Palestinians in Gaza have always been his hostages, at his mercy to mistreat and slaughter at the slightest provocation.

[sarank]

Saying Hamas is causing havoc n the middle east, is a bit rich.
When you are fighting all your neighbours, there is a chance the problem is you

[mslondonsuleyman]

Just the simple fact that you don’t understand it’s a open air prison there is clearly no point in having a discussion with anybody like you

[DanafoxyVixen]

The problem is that israel classes everyone in gaza as hamas or atleast practically the same level threat

[dley]

It’s absolutely sickening the way laugh and joke about it, and yet they tell you they don’t like violence and are fighting towards peace

[carolynzakaria]

Netanyahu will never stop and while the US and west keep supplying the weapons has no reason to.

[theronster]

The war would be over and tens of thousands of lives saved but for two people, Netanyahu and Biden

[shazad]

He used his wife as a human shield when the drone hit 😂

[hazelb]

why let them all carry on for another year...?? We need to stop funding this war...!! It's getting ridiculous now!!

[brianferguson]

Because Israel has the ability to make you believe absurdities. It has the ability to make you forgive atrocities. (To paraphrase Voltaire)