Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Saturday that "Iran's agents who tried to assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake."

He referred to the drone launch from Lebanon, aimed at his private residence in the northern town of Caesarea earlier in the day.

The drone eventually hit another house in the town, with no casualties, and the prime minister's office noted that Netanyahu and his wife were not in their private home at the time of the attack.