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The strike, which wounded dozens, showed that the militant group remains a force.
Published Oct. 13, 2024Updated Oct. 14, 2024, 6:11 a.m. ET
A drone strike by Hezbollah on a military base in the north of Israel killed four soldiers and wounded dozens of other people, the Israeli military said Sunday.
The strike on the base in Binyamina, a town in the Haifa district, was interpreted in Israel not just as a show of resilience by Hezbollah but also as evidence of a worrisome gap in Israeli air defense systems. Hezbollah said it had launched a “swarm of attack drones” over the border into Israel.
“We are studying and investigating the incident — how a drone infiltrated without warning and struck the base,” said Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman. “We must provide better defense.”
Over the past week, Israel has intensified its assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon, inflicting heavy bombardments around the capital, in southern Lebanon, and elsewhere. Lebanon’s government said that at least 23 people had been killed over the past 24 hours. But the airstrikes and ground invasion, which began two weeks ago, have so far failed to accomplish their stated goal: preventing cross-border attacks by the militants.
On Sunday, sirens warning of incoming rocket fire sounded across northern Israel, with Israel’s military saying that Hezbollah had fired around 115 rockets or missiles as of 3 p.m. local time.
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