Hezbollah drone attacks injure 19, one seriously in Western Galilee as IDF trades blows with terror group

A Hezbollah drone attack near Mazra'a, a village close to Nahariya in northern Israel, left one person critically injured and another lightly wounded by shrapnel on Tuesday.

An additional impact was identified in the area, with no casualties reported.

Magen David Adom EMS Dir.-Gen. Eli Bin told Israel's Channel 12 News: "There are two injuries, one of them critically wounded and he is being evacuated to Nahariya Hospital. Another injured person is defined as light. It is two [different] scenes, at another scene there are no reports of casualties. MDA teams are at both scenes conducting searches.” 

MDA medics said they found a man unconscious in his car with a head injury caused by shrapnel. 

“We saw the man sitting in a car, unconscious and suffering a severe head injury from shrapnel,” the medics said according to an MDA statement. “Another wounded woman was near the parking lot, fully conscious and suffering shrapnel wounds in her limbs.” 

The Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the drone attack, stating that it was targeting a military base. The terror group said the attack was a response to the Israel's killing of the commander of the Radwan force on Monday. 

🔴 The IAF operated in the area of Ebba in southern Lebanon in order to strike and eliminate the terrorist Ali Jamal Aldin Jawad, a commander in Hezbollah's Radwan Force, earlier this evening.

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Hezbollah said it launched a swarm of attack drones, with one telling Reuters the drone attack was not the group’s retaliation for Israel’s elimination of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut last week. 

According to the IDF Spokesperson's Office, a number of UAVs that crossed from the southern Lebanon area were identified. One was intercepted, but strikes were identified south of Nahariya and several civilians were injured. 

The attacks came following an Israeli Air Force strike on a military building used by Hezbollah's Southern Front Unit in the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon earlier on Tuesday. According to Arab reports, four people were killed in that strike. 

The Saudi Kingdom's Al-Hadath TV also reported that a senior Hezbollah military commander was killed in the attack in southern Lebanon. 

The IDF confirmed striking two locations in southern Lebanon earlier Tuesday. 

"Air Force fighter jets, guided by intelligence from Shin Bet and IDF Military Intelligence, a short time ago, attacked a military structure used by Hezbollah’s South Front unit in the Nabatieh region of southern Lebanon."

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The Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya reported that seven individuals were admitted to the hospital following a drone attack on Highway 4 near Mazra’a in the Western Galilee.

A 40-year-old man, who was driving a vehicle struck by shrapnel, crashed into a safety barricade and was listed in critical condition.

hundred meters away, a 30-year-old woman sustained light to moderate injuries from shrapnel in her legs and was evacuated to the hospital for further treatment. Additionally, MDA teams treated five individuals who suffered minor injuries from an explosion nearby.

The hospital also stated that two were being treated for acute anxiety and shock.