TEL AVIV: The Israeli military has admitted that four soldiers have been killed and 58 wounded in a drone attack targeting an army base in northern Israel.
BBC cited Israeli army official as saying that seven soldiers had been severely wounded in the attack on a base “adjacent to Binyamina”, a town around 20 miles to the south of Haifa.
Lebanese group Hezbollah has threatened Israel with more strikes if its offensive in Lebanon continued, following a drone attack on a base near Israel’s Haifa Sunday killed around four troops.
Israel’s army admitted that its four soldiers were killed in the attack, the deadliest such strike on an Israeli base since September 23, when Israel increased its strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Hezbollah “pledges the enemy that what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is nothing compared to what anticipates it if it decides to continue its aggression against our people,” it added.
In what it termed as a “complex” operation, the Iran-backed Hezbollah stated that it had launched dozens of missiles toward Nahariya and Acre north of Haifa “with the target of keeping Israeli defense systems busy.”
At the same time, it also launched “squadrons of various drones, some of which were being used for the first time, toward different areas in Haifa and Acre, where they were able to get past Israeli air defense radars without being detected” and hit the training camp in Binyamina south of Haifa, it said.
After claiming the Binyamina strike, Hezbollah stated that it had launched missiles at a “maintenance and rehabilitation base” of the army, south of Haifa.
The recent development comes two days following air raid sirens sounded in Israela after two aerial drones entered Israel from Lebanon. At least one compound north of Tel Aviv was also suffered during the assault, AFP reported.
The recent escalation in Lebanon has killed over 1,300 people and displaced more than a million more from their houses, according to official data.
