At least seven people were injured Tuesday, one of them critically, in a Hezbollah drone attack from Lebanon on northern Israel, amid snowballing regional tensions as Israel braced for an expected reprisal attack from Iran and its allied proxies.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it treated victims at three locations in the Nahariya area. One person was critically wounded, another person was listed in light-to-moderate condition, and five others were lightly hurt, MDA said.
The critically wounded man, in his 40s, was hit by shrapnel while driving and he crashed into the side of the road. Hundreds of meters away, in a parking lot, a woman aged 30 was wounded by shrapnel, according to MDA. The other five were hurt by the blast from an explosion near them.
The Hezbollah terror group took responsibility for the assault, saying it had launched a “swarm” of attack drones targeting a military base, but all the casualties appeared to be civilians.
The IDF said it identified several drones entering Israeli airspace from Lebanon in the attack, and that one was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system while the others impacted the Nahariya area, causing casualties.
Prof. Masad Barhoum, director of the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, told Channel 12 that the hospital was treating four people for injuries, including the critically wounded individual, who was intubated and unconscious.
A source within the Lebanon-based terror group told Reuters that the attack was not the expected retaliation for Israel’s killing of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut last week. Hezbollah has vowed to avenge him, prompting worries of a major escalation that could tip into a full-blown war.
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