A drone fell on Thursday at a hotel in Eilat, causing damage to the location, without casualties. Eilat Mayor Eli Lankri was at the fall scene. In a conversation with Israel Hayom he said, "A drone fell here while a warning was sounded, maybe a few seconds before. Another incident that ended miraculously, we see that it's very close to a hotel."
A one-way attack drone launched by the Houthis struck the entrance of a hotel in Eilat, southern Israel. No casualties have been reported. pic.twitter.com/Kz6pvlDWsT
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He further said, "Second drone within a week, that there's a drone fall here. Both weren't intercepted – one without any warning at all, the second with warning. This is a situation that needs to be investigated. I demanded to investigate the first incident, they investigated and gave us answers, but it's not satisfactory. We'll need to wait for the investigation to understand why this is happening a second time and how we should act."
Houthi drone launched from Yemen struck Eilat, southern Israel. The siren went off only seconds before impact. pic.twitter.com/5rgLEGaYI0
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"At this stage, since this is the situation, I made a decision together with the regional commander to cancel the event that's supposed to take place now at Dekel Beach. I'm the last one who tends to cancel events – everyone knows that. During the war, there were many launches here and we didn't cancel studies or anything. But when a case occurs that we don't know why it happened, the concern is that it could happen again. Therefore, at these hours, half an hour before the event, it's better not to take a risk and not to hold the event on Thursday."
Your office is located about 30 meters from where the drone fell. Were you in the office and did you hear it?
"I don't think they aimed at me, but when a drone falls without warning, it's always a bad feeling. We give full trust to the security forces and the air force that does wonderful work here in the area. There are excellent defense systems here that have proven themselves time after time. There are isolated cases that still penetrated and fell."
"It needs to be said that there's no change in Home Front Command policy, and also that our assessment is that not many people would have arrived at the event because of the proximity of this specific event. Regardless, we want to hear the investigation results."
