Comment on the picture, An Israeli helicopter evacuates injured people after a drone attack by Hezbollah caused heavy casualties on October 13, 2024 in Binyamina/Haifa.
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The Israeli army announced that four soldiers were killed in an attack launched by a Hezbollah drone on Sunday, October 13, 2024, on a military base south of Haifa, after Israel escalated its conflict with the Lebanese party. increase.
The army said in a statement that it issued, “Four IDF soldiers were killed and seven others were seriously wounded.”
Israel Army Radio had previously announced that 67 people were injured, 5 of them in a serious condition and 14 in a moderate condition, as a result of a drone explosion near Binyamina in the Haifa district.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, claims responsibility for the attack on the Golani Brigade training center in northern Israel. The party threatened further attacks on Israel if they continued to attack Lebanon.
Hezbollah said in a statement that it launched a “swarm of attack marches” on a training camp for the Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of Haifa.
The statement said that the attack came in response to a series of “Israeli attacks”, especially on the neighborhoods of Al-Nuwairi and Basta in the capital, Beirut, and the rest of the Lebanese regions.
The statement said: “We targeted, with a swarm of drones, a training camp for the Golani Brigade in Binyamina.”
The Israeli army also said that most of the wounded were transferred to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, while others were transferred to Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan, Rambam Hospital in Haifa, and Rabin Medical Center in the Petah Tikva.
The Israeli newspaper Hayom reported the incident in Binyamina: “Two drones entered Israel through the northern regions of the sea, and the navy was able to intercept a plane over Nahariya, while the second plane went lost, so there was no warning.”
Sirens sounded in southern Haifa, Arab Aramsha, Nahariya, and Ras Naqoura, warning of missile attacks, according to what was reported by Israeli media.
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Comment on the picture, An Israeli soldier waits for a military helicopter to take off after unloading patients injured in a drone attack from Lebanon, on the Rambam Hospital campus in Haifa.
Hezbollah: “Qualitative and complex operation”
Hezbollah on Monday threatened more attacks on Israel if it continued its attack on Lebanon, after it launched a drone attack on a military base south of Haifa.
The party said in its statement, “The resistance promises the enemy that what he saw today in southern Haifa is only a small comparison to what awaits if they decide to continue giving an attack on our people.”
Hezbollah described the recent attack on Haifa as a “special and complex operation”.
He explained that his fighters “fired dozens of missiles towards various targets in the areas of Nahariya and Akko with the aim of occupying the Israeli air defense systems, while at the same time the Air Force sent against Islamic swarms of various drones launched, some of which are being used for the first time, towards different areas in Akko and Haifa.”
Agence France-Presse quoted the party as saying, “The special drones were able to penetrate Israeli air defense radars without being detected and reached the target in a training camp for the Golani Brigade in an area Binyamina, south of the city of Haifa. .”
He said that the marches “exploded in rooms containing dozens of officers and soldiers of the enemy of Israel who were preparing to take part in the attack on Lebanon, including senior officials.
Media reports: Israel expresses strict demands for a ceasefire in Lebanon
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Israeli Channel 12 talks about Israel’s demands for a ceasefire in the north. According to the report, any cessation of hostilities depends on these conditions:
1. Implementing UN Resolution 1701, which would push Hezbollah away from the borders, including the disarmament of the “militias Libanus”.
2. International guidelines to prevent the rearmament of Hezbollah, focusing on the border between Syria and Lebanon.
3. To allow Israel to continue moving across Lebanon when it identifies threats, including limited ground operations.
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2024-10-13 22:07:00
