Hezbollah drone strike injures 67 on Israeli military base

The Israeli military is investigating why no warning sirens were activated over the unprecedented strike near Haifa which left four people potentially mortally wounded.

Israeli police secure the site of a drone strike on a military base near Haifa. Picture: AFP

Nearly 70 people have been injured, some critically, in a Hezbollah drone strike on a military base near Haifa.

The unprecedented strike on the base in the Binyamina area of northern Israel left four people potentially mortally wounded and five seriously wounded, with others hospitalised, the Israel Defence Forces said.

IDF evacuating some of the wounded via helicopter. https://t.co/6cEPA94ZaApic.twitter.com/BXjoRT5cJa

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The drone was sent under cover of a Hezbollah rocket barrage, Israeli media reports. The Israeli Defence Forces will investigate why no warning sirens were activated, according to the Jerusalem Post.

In a statement, Hezbollah said it had launched “a squadron of attack drones at a training camp … in Binyamina, south of Haifa in response to Zionist attacks” including Israeli air strikes in the central Beirut neighbourhoods of Basta and Nweiri that killed 22 people on Thursday.

The Israeli military is investigating why no warning sirens were activated over the unprecedented strike near Haifa which left four people potentially mortally wounded.

Israel’s Channel 12 reports that Hezbollah fired 3 drones at Israel, with two shot down and one striking “a gathering of Israelis near Binyamina.”

A third drone was shot down over the sea off Haifa, says the IDF.

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