Olayomi Koiki
Hezbollah said on Sunday that it attacked a camp of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade camp in Binyamina in northern Israel with a “swarm of drones”.
Israel’s military said four of its soldiers were killed and seven severely injured in the incident.
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah resumed a year ago when the Iranian-backed group began firing rockets at Israeli positions in support of Hamas at the start of the Gaza war and has sharply escalated in recent weeks.
Israel’s military operations in northern Gaza have also ramped up, with Palestinian authorities saying hundreds of people have been killed in the past 10 days.
Israeli tanks reached the north edge of Gaza City on Sunday, pounding some districts of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and forcing many families to leave their homes, residents said.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed and several wounded in Israeli tank shelling of a school sheltering displaced families in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, medics said.
In the early hours of Monday, an Israeli air strike killed three people and wounded 40 others when it hit some tents of displaced Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip city of Deir Al-Balah, where a million people were sheltering, medics said.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, aimed at eliminating the militant group Hamas, has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians since it began a year ago, according to Gaza’s health ministry, and has laid waste to the enclave.
The Middle East, meanwhile, remains on high alert for Israel to retaliate against Iran for an Oct. 1 barrage of long-range missiles launched in response to Israel’s assaults on Lebanon.
The Pentagon said on Sunday it would send U.S. troops to Israel along with an advanced U.S. anti-missile system, as Israel weighs its expected retaliation against Iran.
Washington has been privately urging Israel to calibrate its response to avoid triggering a broader war in the Middle East, officials say.
With inputs from agencies.