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Friday, July 19, 2024
PM’s office says Netanyahu received real-time updates on drone attack

A police officer collects glass shrapnel from the window of a building that was damaged in a drone strike in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)
The Prime Minister’s Office tells reporters that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was updated in real time overnight amid the Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu just wrapped up a security briefing via phone with the heads of the security establishment, his office says, in his first acknowledgment of the attack, which killed one person and lightly wounded several others.