Father recounts soldier's experiences in deadly Hezbollah drone strike

Shuki, the father of one of the soldiers wounded in Hezbollah’s drone strike on a military base near Binyamina on Sunday evening, recounted his son’s description of the event in an interview with the newspaper on Monday Maariv.

Four soldiers were killed and another seven seriously injured in the Hezbollah attack. The Lebanese terror group claimed the attack targeted the IDF Golani Brigade base in the area.

“My son is in Beilinson Hospital,” Shuki explained. “He has relatively minor injuries, a piece of shrapnel in his face and he has lost hearing in one ear. They did a CT scan and we will get the results today. I am deeply concerned for those seriously injured and of course for those who were killed. They were his trainees in the unit. It’s hard, but the soldiers are strong.

“I received a message from my son saying, ‘A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) crashed into the base, but I’m completely fine.’ “He is a troop leader for new recruits,” the soldier’s father added.

“He witnessed a scene reminiscent of a terrorist attack – that’s how he described it. He immediately went outside and told me he was being evacuated to a hospital. At first they mentioned Rambam Hospital, but later he said they would take him there by helicopter to Beilinson.

An Israeli helicopter evacuates injured people after a drone strike claimed numerous lives in Binyamina, Israel, October 13, 2024. (Source: Amir Levy/Getty Images)

“They were sitting in the dining room and were about to eat. In an instant, from no more than five meters away, he saw exactly which table the drone crashed onto. He didn’t look at the ceiling, but quickly realized it was a UAV. He saw soldiers in critical condition – people he knew well, his own trainees. Some of the mothers called him, but knowing there was little hope, he did not respond,” he added.

“People have slipped on blood”

“There was another injured person next to him,” Shuki noted. “They are very determined. They wanted to return to their soldiers and give them a sense of security. He said forces arrived quickly after shrapnel hit his face and they evacuated whoever they could. He described a moment where, due to the amount of blood, people were slipping on the floor. It was a really dark scene.

“Usually they eat at a different time, but that day they happened to eat at that hour, and then everything fell into place,” the soldier’s father said at the end of the interview. “I assume there will be an investigation. It doesn’t seem plausible that a UAV could reach this location. I mean the precision – it was not a coincidence: both the location, the dining room and the timing. That’s the real concern.”

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