A drone attack launched on Sunday against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) by Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group based in southern Lebanon, killed four soldiers and wounded dozens more.
The drone hit an IDF base adjacent to Binyamina in central-northern Israel, Israel said in a statement.
“All the injured individuals have been evacuated to hospitals and their families have been notified,” the statement said. “Four IDF soldiers were killed in the incident and an additional seven were severely injured.”
The four soldiers who were killed were identified as Sergeant Omri Tamari, 19, from Mazkeret Batya; Sergeant Yosef Hieb, 19, from Tuba-Zangariyye; Sergeant Yoav Agmon, 19, from Binyamina-Giv’at Ada; and Sergeant Amitay Alon, 19, from Ramot Naftali.
Various publications pinned the number of soldiers injured at 58.
The news comes as Israel has conducted ground operations inside Lebanon for the past couple of weeks as it seeks to push Hezbollah away from Israel’s…