More than 60 injured in Hezbollah drone attack on Israeli military site | Israel attacks Lebanon news

Hezbollah said it fired a “swarm of drones” at an Israeli military camp in Binyamina, northern Israel.

At least 67 people were injured in a drone strike in northern Israel, according to Israeli emergency services and local media, as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it attacked an Israeli military camp with a “swarm” of drones.

Israeli Army Radio reported that at least four people were critically injured in Sunday’s attack in the town of Binyamina, south of Haifa.

According to Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, no warning sirens were heard before the attack.

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement, the Iran-aligned group said it fired a “swarm of drones” at a Golani Brigade camp.

The Golani Brigade is one of the five infantry brigades in the regular Israeli army and is considered an elite unit.

In a separate statement, Hezbollah said it also attacked the Israeli logistics base at Tsnobar in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with a rocket.

Hezbollah’s drone strike comes on the same day that the United States announced it would send a new air defense system to Israel to improve its protection against rocket attacks.

At the direction of US President Joe Biden, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of US military personnel to Israel to support Israeli air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against “To strengthen Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder said in a statement.

Reporting from Amman, Jordan, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said that while Israel’s air defense system is very sophisticated and complex, drones are difficult to detect.

“Typically, sirens go off when something is moving towards a location, prompting civilians and residents of that area to seek shelter. That’s why there were very few injuries from these attacks last year,” she said.

“But the drones are harder to detect and because they fly at lower altitudes, it is much harder to intercept them. Intercepting them effectively would put many people at risk,” Odeh said.

Sunday’s attack comes as Israel intensifies its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated a year ago when the Lebanese group began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Israel’s attack on Gaza. Israel has sharply escalated fighting in recent weeks, carrying out airstrikes across Lebanon and sending ground troops to the south of the country.

More than 2,100 people have been killed in Lebanon since last October, most of them in recent weeks since Israel stepped up its attacks, and more than 1.2 million people have been displaced, according to Lebanese authorities.

The Hezbollah attack in Binyamina shows that the attack on Lebanon also comes at a high price for Israelis, said Gideon Levy, an Israeli political analyst.

“Nothing less was to be expected. We are at the beginning of the war in Lebanon, not at the end. And anyone who is so enthusiastic about this war should know that it will come at a very high price,” he told Al Jazeera.

Hezbollah has said it will continue to attack Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza and in support of their “brave and honorable resistance” and in “defense of Lebanon and its people.”