The Israel Defence Forces said four soldiers were killed, and 60 others were wounded on Saturday when a missile from a drone hit an army base in northern Israel. Seven of the injured soldiers were seriously hurt in the attack on a base close to Binyamina town, which lies 33 km south of Haifa.

Hezbollah said that it has attacked a training camp of the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces, which lies in the region between Tel Aviv and Haifa. The armed group’s media office says that it was an attack in response to recent attacks in southern Lebanon and Beirut by Israel. They say they used a “swarm of drones” to carry out the attack.

This was the largest attack on an Israeli position in over a year. According to the Israeli ambulance service, 61 people were hurt in the attack, three of them critically. Some 37 wounded were taken to eight regional hospitals by ambulance or helicopter, MDA said.

In its first report, MDA announced that, in addition to the three critically injured, 18 were moderately injured, 31 were lightly injured, and nine suffered from anxiety. It is still unknown whether the numbers of critical injuries differ between the reports from the MDA and the IDF. Initial restrictions by Israeli censorship on reporting over the press prevented details about the target area from being published until the IDF confirmed it was the Binyamina base.

There were claims by some Israeli media outlets that the base had been attacked by a low-flying drone from Lebanon. The drone, according to various analysts, is a relatively simple weapon which did not trip early alarms. For much of the evening, footage of emergency vehicles – including helicopters – was spread through media reports and social media across northern Israel as it ferried casualties to hospitals. The majority of the injured were said to have been in a mess hall at the time of the attack. They were caught off guard. Posts going viral online feature pictures of an evacuated mess hall with a hole in the roof.

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