Four soldiers were killed, and more than 51 Israelis soldiers were wounded, seven of them seriously, on Sunday evening when an explosive drone launched by Hezbollah hit their base near Wadi Ara in the Menashe Regional Council district, close to the town of Binyamina. All the wounded soldiers were evacuated, and their families are being notified.
It is believed the drone evaded the defense systems by entering Israel with another drone that was shot down. This one was flying so low that it dropped off the radar. A faulty assumption was made that it must have crashed or have been intercepted. Minister of Defense, Gallant, has vowed to employ methods to avoid another tragedy.
The Israel Defense Forces announced the names of the four soldiers killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on a Golani training base near Binyamina in north-central Israel, while questions abounded as to why sirens failed to sound ahead of the strike.
With the new week that began today, as of this writing, three surface-to-surface missiles were fired at central Israel late Monday afternoon by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
As it claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, Hezbollah touted what it said was its ability to overwhelm Israeli air defenses even as the military forges ahead with its ground operation against the terror group in south Lebanon. That Hezbollah has such capabilities to reach deep into central Israel adds an urgent level of new security concerns in this war to defend Israel’s survival.