Hezbollah claims drone attack near Haifa that wounded at least 60 Israelis
An Israeli volunteer rescue service on Sunday said more than 60 people were wounded south of Haifa, where Hezbollah earlier claimed a drone strike that targeted a military base. Hezbollah said it launched “a squadron of attack drones” at a military training camp in Binyamina, south of Haifa, in response to Israeli air strikes on Lebanon. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
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Summary:
The UNIFIL peacekeeping force in Lebanon said that there had been further Israeli violations against its positions after Israeli tanks entered a UNIFIL post in the Lebanese town of Ramiya near the border with Israel.
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “immediately” get UN peacekeepers “out of harm’s way” in combat areas in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese Red Cross said a team of its paramedics was hit by a strike while on a rescue mission in the southern part of Lebanon, leaving personnel lightly wounded and two ambulances damaged.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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