Ambulances on their way to the medical center in Ramat Gan, northern Israel, after a Hezbollah drone strike, Oct. 13, 2024. (Credit: Sheba Medical Center/Handout/AFP)
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the strike carried out with a "booby-trapped drone" against a barracks in Benyamina, in the Haifa region, which injured dozens of Israeli soldiers.
In a statement, the party claimed to have carried out this strike "with a swarm of booby-trapped drones on the Golani Brigade training base in Benyamina, south of Haifa." This attack is part of the series of "Khaybar" operations, launched at the end of September after the death of Hassan Nasrallah, and is intended to be "a response to the attacks" by Israel, "in particular against the neighborhoods of Noueiri and Basta in Beirut, as well as in other Lebanese regions."
The Israeli strikes on these two neighborhoods in the heart of the Lebanese capital left around twenty dead. They targeted, according to information from the Israeli press and security sources close to Hezbollah, the head of Hezbollah coordination, Wafiq Safa.
The strike on Benyamina left at least 60 injured, according to a provisional report from Israeli emergency services published shortly after 9 p.m.
This is the highest number of injuries in a Hezbollah attack on northern Israel since the start of the clashes on Oct. 8, 2023. In April, a strike on a "community center" in Arab Aramshe injured 17 people and killed a reservist.
Benyamina is located east of Caesarea, about 65 kilometers from the Blue Line. The Israeli army will investigate why the warning sirens did not go off.
This article originally appeared in French in L'Orient-Le Jour.
