War in the Middle East: More than 60 injured in Israel in an area where Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a drone attack

La police israélienne empêche l’accès au lieu de l’attaque de drones. MAXPPP

L’attaque a eu lieu ce dimanche soir. Par ailleurs, 51 personnes ont été tuées samedi au Liban dans des frappes israéliennes.

At least 60 people were injured Sunday in Israel in an area near the northern city of Haifa, where Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a drone attack, an Israeli emergency service said. According to United Hatzalah, a volunteer rescue organization, medical teams “are providing assistance to more than 60 wounded with varying degrees of injuries: critical, serious, moderate and light”, in the Binyamina area.

Earlier, pro-Iranian Hezbollah, at open war with Israel since September 23, announced that its fighters had fired “explosive drones on a Golani Brigade training camp in Binyamina, south of Haifa”. The Lebanese group had dedicated this attack to its leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed on September 27 in an Israeli strike near Beirut.

New death toll in Lebanon, exchange between Pezeshkian and Macron

This Sunday evening, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that 51 people had been killed the day before and 174 injured in Israeli strikes on the country. According to an AFP count based on figures According to official figures, more than 1,300 people have been killed in Lebanon since pro-Iranian Hezbollah and Israel went into open warfare on September 23.

As tensions mount in the region, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian spoke by phone with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Sunday about the situation in the Gaza Strip as well as Lebanon. The leaders discussed how to secure a “ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel”, the statement said, adding that Pezeshkian had “asked the French president to work with other European countries to force the Zionist regime to end the genocide and crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon“.