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By Jason Lemon and Mandy Taheri
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Dozens of people have reportedly been wounded after a Hezbollah attack on Israel on Sunday night, the Associated Press reported.
The AP shared Israeli rescue services reports that said at least 40 people were injured after the Lebanese militant group said it had launched a "swarm of drones" at the Golani Brigade's camp in the northern Israeli town of Binyamina, about 30 miles south of Haifa.
At least three people were "critically" injured, according to the AP, which shared footage of a helicopter arriving at Sheba Medical Center with the injured.
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The drones reportedly did not trigger Israel's alarm system.
Hezbollah said in a statement that the brigade was targeted in retaliation for two Israeli strikes in central Beirut earlier this week that killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens. The Golani Brigade, one of five Israeli army infantry brigades, is described as "elite fighters," according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website.
Newsweek has reached out to the IDF for comment via email on Sunday.
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The attack comes the same day that the United States announced it will deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and military crew to Israel in an effort to enhance the country's air defense capabilities following Iran's missile strike earlier this month.
Since October 7, 2023, following Hamas' attack on Israel, the country has been at war with the Palestinian militant group in Gaza. Israel has launched several ground and air operations in Gaza where it has killed over 42,000 people in the past year, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. On Saturday, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 22 people in northern Gaza, and on Thursday Israeli forces hit a school serving as a shelter for displaced people, killing 27 people.
Large parts of Gaza have been destroyed, and about 90 percent of its 2.3 million residents have been displaced.
In recent weeks, Israel has pushed north into Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, in a ground operation. Israeli forces took out longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in late-September, which have raised fears of an all-out war, with military actions escalating across the region, including an Iranian missile strike against Israel in retaliation earlier this month.
In a statement published on Sunday, the IDF said it carried out about 200 strikes in Lebanon in the past day. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported Sunday that 51 people were killed and 174 wounded from strikes on Saturday. It said 2,306 people have been killed and 10,698 wounded since the year-long war began.
Earlier today, before Hezbollah's attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United Nations (U.N.) to evacuate all peacekeepers station in southern Lebanon.
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Netanyahu's comments come amid global leaders' condemnation of the IDF's strikes on the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) base in Naqoura over the past few days. As of Sunday, at least four peacekeepers have been injured and hospitalized from IDF fire, according to UNIFIL statements.
"Peacekeepers were inadvertently hurt during IDF combat against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
UNIFIL reported early Sunday morning that "two IDF Merkava tanks destroyed the position's main gate and forcibly entered the position."
This is a developing story and will be updated with additional information.
Update 10/13/23, 4:22 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.
Update 10/13/24, 4:01 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional context and information.
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