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Hezbollah Strike Kills Four Israeli Soldiers, Dozens Hurt

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Israel’s armed forces announced that four soldiers were killed by a Hezbollah drone strike at a northern base on Sunday, leading to intensified bombardments of Lebanon while troops clashed with militants along the border.

The assault on a military training facility in Binyamina, near Haifa, marked the deadliest strike on an Israeli base since September 23, when Israel ramped up its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Emergency responders reported over 60 people injured in the attack.

Authorities in Gaza reported that an Israeli airstrike targeting a school serving as a shelter for displaced residents has increased the death toll to 15, with several entire families among the deceased. In a separate incident, an overnight strike on a hospital resulted in four casualties.

Fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces continued to escalate in southern Lebanon, with UN peacekeepers once more finding themselves in the crossfire.

Israeli troops “forcibly” moved into a UN base with two tanks, peacekeepers claimed, just after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the force to pull out from the contested zone.

Israel’s military stated that a tank had reversed into the UN post while under fire.

Iran-backed Hezbollah announced late on Sunday that it had launched “a squadron of attack drones” at the Binyamina camp, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the major city of Haifa.

The strike was in retaliation for Israeli attacks, including airstrikes on Thursday that Lebanon’s health ministry said had killed at least 22 people in central Beirut.

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In a later statement, Hezbollah warned Israel that “what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is nothing compared to what awaits it if it continues its aggression against our noble and dear people”.

An Israeli volunteer rescue service, United Hatzalah, said its teams in Binyamina assisted “over 60 wounded people” with injuries ranging from mild to critical.

Hezbollah has been firing rockets and drones into Israel for more than a year in support of Hamas militants in Gaza.

Since late September, however, its strikes have reached further into the country.

Israel’s sophisticated air defences have intercepted most of the

projectiles, with few casualties caused by strikes or falling debris.

Israel’s recent strikes have increasingly targeted areas beyond Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds in southern Beirut, and Lebanon’s south and east.

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