39 Israelis injured in Haifa due to explosion caused by Hezbollah drone: Army Radio

By Khaled Yousef

JERUSALEM (AA) - At least 39 Israelis were injured, including four critically, in an explosion caused by a drone launched by Hezbollah on the city of Haifa in northern Israel, according to the Israeli Army Radio on Sunday.

The daily Israel Hayom also reported that a large number of Israelis were wounded due to the drone explosion in the town of Binyamina in Haifa.

This comes as Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing at least 1,437 people, injuring over 4,123 others, and displacing more than 1.34 million people.

The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed more than 42,200 people, most of them women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Mideast was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, it expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 by launching an incursion into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala