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Comment on the picture, Israeli police and officers work at the site of a shell drop in Nahariya, northern Israel, after Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones against military targets on August 6, 2024.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched a series of attack drones against military targets in northern Israel on Tuesday.
Hezbollah issued a statement saying it launched an attack using drones targeting the headquarters of the Golani Brigade and the headquarters of Unit 621 Egoz in the “Sharaga” barracks north of Akka, northern Israel .
According to the statement, “the swoop marches successfully hit their targets and achieved confirmed casualties.”
Israeli ambulance services announced two injuries in a drone explosion in the Western Galilee region, one of them in serious condition.
The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported that bombing from Lebanon targeted the area, adding that a military facility between Acre and Nahariya was bombed.
Sirens sounded in the city of Acre, Nahariya, and its surroundings in the north of Israel, fearing that a drone would enter and missiles would be launched from the Lebanese territory .
A source inside the group told Reuters, “This was not revenge for the killing of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut last week,” Hezbollah vowed to retaliate, raising fears of an escalation big that could turn into an open war.
Hezbollah’s statement said that the operation was within the framework of support for the Palestinians in Gaza, and “in response to the attack and murder” in the city of Aba yesterday, Monday.
At least six injuries
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Comment on the picture, Damage to a bus station in Israel, after Hezbollah said it launched a series of attack drones against military targets in Nahariya, northern Israel, on August 6, 2024.
In its first statement regarding the attack, the Israeli army said that several unidentified objects crossed over from Lebanon, adding that one of them was tracked to affect the south of Nahariya, the stole many civilians.
Warning sirens sounded for incoming missiles due to fear that pieces of the interceptor missiles would fall. The army said the sirens sounded later, at 12:56 noon local time, were false alarms.
The Times of Israel reported that officials said at least six people were taken to hospital after an attack on a Hezbollah march in northern Israel.
Professor Massad Barhoum, director of the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, told Channel 12 News that the hospital was treating six people, one of whom was seriously injured.
He said three others were slightly injured, and two were being treated for serious assaults.
Paramedics Roy Vishna and Noam Levy from Magen David Adom explained that the seriously injured man had been hit in the head by shrapnel, and was found unconscious.
A statement from Magen David said: “We saw the man sitting in a car unconscious, suffering from a serious head injury from shrapnel. “
The statement said: “A woman was also injured near the pitch. She was fully conscious and suffering from shrapnel wounds to her limbs.”
They say they revived the man and took him to hospital in “very serious condition”, and they also moved the woman, who suffered minor to moderate injuries.
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Comment on the picture, Israeli police are investigating the site of a shell crash
A witness to a drone crash on a road in the northern town of Mazraa said he had “miraculously survived” the blast. Because he was lying on the road, he was saved from flying shrapnel that injured several other people, one of whom was in critical condition.
The Times of Israel reported that the man, who spoke to Israel’s Kan Radio, said he heard a siren and laid down, heard a drone flying in the sky, and then there was a huge explosion, “and shrapnel flew over me.”
The witness, who says he is from Kiryat Ata, said: “I only survived because I lay down, it was a miracle I have never seen anything like this .
He described the scene as “horrific,” saying the Iron Dome system missed the drone and fragments of interceptor missiles fell nearby.
Another witness, Maor Amsalem, told The Times of Israel that he was driving his car north when he heard a siren, so he stopped on the side of the road and saw the drone about 7 meters above it explodes and hits a car traveling south.
Amsallam said: “The glass broke. I heard endless screaming. I saw people hurt. I’ve never seen anything like it before! I’m still shaking!”
Khader Shaker from Israel’s Netivi Operations and Maintenance Department, who arrived shortly after the explosion, said that drivers suffered accidents due to shock after the explosion.
This came after the Israeli army confirmed that fighter jets had been used to hit what it called a “military structure” used by Hezbollah in the town of Mifdoun in southern Lebanon.
Israeli forces released aerial images of the attack in the town of Mifdoun, which is about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Lebanon’s southern border, and which saw an Israeli attack for the first time.
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said five people were killed in the Israeli attack, and the strike reportedly hit a house occupied by Hezbollah members.
2024-08-06 12:33:45
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