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.
Footage on social media showed a drone impacting on a road in the town of Mazra’a in the Western Galilee, near Nahariya.
