According to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, a drone attack was launched on the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the city of Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv, on Saturday morning.

Netanyahu and his wife were not in the building and there were no injuries.

The Israel Defense Forces said a drone coming from Lebanon “hit a structure in the Caesarea area,” while Israel's Ynet news agency reported the sound of an explosion in the city.

The attack comes just days after Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a military operation in the Gaza Strip.

Sinwar was the architect of the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, and his killing in combat was the culmination of a years-long manhunt by the IDF, but recent attacks have provided a swift reality that belies any hopes of his death bringing an end to the conflict mean.

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According to the Israeli military, at least 55 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel within an hour on Saturday morning.

In advance of the latest wave of rockets, sirens had begun to sound across Israel, including in the port city of Haifa, which has been subjected to heavy fire from Hezbollah rockets in recent weeks.

NBC News staffers in Israel said sirens rang continuously for more than four hours in the north on Saturday morning.

Dramatic footage released by the Israeli military purporting to show Yahya Sinwar's final moments will be etched in Palestinian national memory for generations to come: the defiance of Sinwar, covered in dust and having his right arm torn off, but still fighting.

It's an image that brings to mind an uncomfortable comparison with Israel's national hero Joseph Trumpeldor, the one-armed Zionist resistance fighter.

Trumpeldor has become a mythical figure, an icon of Zionism and heroic patriotism. He died more than a century ago in the Battle of Tel-Hai in 1920, but his legacy lives on, inspiring generation after generation of children who became soldiers. His famous last words are said to have been: “It is good to die for our country.”

In Israel, we grew up with this phrase – it is displayed in children's classrooms, written in school textbooks and recited on Memorial Day. Songs have been written about his famous last words and his fierce fighting spirit. Streets named after Trumpeldor can be found in cities across Israel, and a lion monument stands at the site where Trumpeldor fell.

But for many Israelis, it is uncomfortable to draw a comparison between their iconic hero, the symbol of courageous Zionism, and Sinwar – the man who died trying to eradicate it.

Still, it is not unreasonable to believe that Sinwar's fighting spirit in his final moments will leave a legacy that will inspire generations to come. And the drone footage released by Israel showing this will likely serve as a digital monument to Palestinian resistance.

National security spokesman John Kirby said Hamas was in a much weaker position than ever before following the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar. Speaking to the press in Berlin, Kirby said this created a unique opportunity to talk about a ceasefire and the return of the hostages from Gaza.

“Hamas’ military structure has just been almost decimated,” he said. “They are absolutely in no position, as you and I are speaking here today, to carry out another attack on the scale of October 7th.”

Nevertheless, Kirby warned, Hamas, even if it was a “shadow of its former self,” could still be deadly and had enough capabilities that should not be underestimated.

“They still exist as a terrorist organization. They are still in Gaza. They are still holding hostages,” he said, adding that while there were no active negotiations, this could now change.

“We have never stopped having discussions with our colleagues in Qatar and Egypt about the possibility of getting something started,” he said.

To hear emboldened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is the “beginning of the end” of Gaza's devastating war, a crucial step toward his long-term goal of destroying the militant group and returning the hostages, which were taken on October 7th.

Sinwar's Palestinian supporters don't see it that way. They vowed on Friday to redouble their so-called “resistance” against Israel, sparked by a video purporting to show their leader's final moments.

The images showed that Sinwar was not hiding in a tunnel surrounded by hostages – as Israeli officials often claimed – but was above ground, using his last strength, to hurl a stick at a drone. (NBC News has not independently confirmed that the drone footage released by the Israeli military is of Sinwar.)

Sinwar was not a hero to all Palestinians, some of whom rejected his brutal tactics – including the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack he orchestrated – as counterproductive to the goal of peace and Palestinian statehood. But many others react to his murder with a mixture of grief and solemn martyrdom. For them, this was a military commander who fought to the last and was willing to sacrifice not only the lives of thousands of Israelis and tens of thousands of Palestinians, but also his own.

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Twelve months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had just experienced his country's worst defense failure ever and was facing widespread anger at home and abroad.

After decades of touting his security prowess, the longtime leader was considered politically exhausted after Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

On Friday, a day after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was announced, the six-term prime minister's hold on power appeared stronger than it has been since the attack.

Whether coincidental or not, Sinwar's killings represent another notable political boost for a man who pollsters and analysts have often written off over the years. But where does this leave Netanyahu after the assassination of Sinwar, the final chief architect of the October 7 terror attacks that killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostage?

“It puts him in a strong position in some ways,” said Bronwen Maddox, CEO of London-based international affairs think tank Chatham House.

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