Israeli soldiers killed, dozens injured in Hezbollah drone strike

Hezbollah has launched a drone strike at Israel in a devastating attack as the US announced plans for an advanced anti-missile system. Follow the updates.

Four Israeli soldiers have died and at least 67 people have been wounded after Hezbollah terrorists launched a drone strike on a military base in Binyamina in the north of Israel.

One of the explosives-laden drones was successfully intercepted in western Galilee, but the other craft evaded Israeli air defences and crashed, according to reports.

An ambulance leaves the scene of a drone strike near the northern Israeli town of Binyamina. Picture: AFP

It cane after the US announced it would send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence anti-missile system to Israel, along with around 100 US troops to operate it, the Pentagon said, even as Iran warned Washington to keep American forces out of Israel.

The move is in response to Iran’s firing of 200 missiles on October 1, and will bring American troops closer to the widening war.

A THAAD interceptor is launched during a successful intercept test. Picture: Supplied

Israeli troops patrolling near a United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) base in the southern Lebanon's Naqoura region near the border. UN peacekeepers in Lebanon said Israeli tanks broke through a gate to enter a Blue Helmet position in Lebanon. Picture: AFP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier called on the UN chief to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of “harm’s way”, saying Hezbollah was using them as “human shields”.

But the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) repeated its refusal to withdraw from the border area after five of its members were wounded in the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Hamas planned a giant large-scale assault inside Israel which included a 9/11-style terror attack on skyscrapers in Tel Aviv according to bombshell documents recovered by the Israeli Defense Forces.

New documents show the head of the political wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar was planning attacks that would draw Israel into a regional war. Picture: AFP

The IDF discovered the digital and paper records in Gaza last November, according to American news outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

The 36 pages showed plans for strategic attacks from the terror group, all drawn up prior to the October 7 massacre, under the code name “the big project”.

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