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Hezbollah-affiliated media claimed that three drones were sent across the border.
Nineteen Israelis were wounded on Tuesday when Hezbollah launched attack drones towards the Western Galilee, according to initial reports.
A man in his 30s was listed in serious condition, a 30-year-old woman was moderately wounded, and others suffered light wounds, according to reports.
At least two drones were said to have been launched into Israel; only some were intercepted. One drone impacted the Arab town of Mazra'a, between Acre and Nahariya, after crossing the border from Lebanon.
Magen David Adom emergency service medics reportedly treated victims at three different scenes around Nahariya. The wounded were evacuated to the city's Galilee Medical Center, according to MDA.
The Israel Defense Forces said that at least some of the casualties were apparently caused by an Israeli interceptor missile that missed its target.
"As a result of the fall, several civilians were injured, the incident is under investigation," the military announced in a post on X.
MDA paramedics told Israel's Channel 13 News: "We saw the man sitting in the car unconscious and suffering from a severe head injury from a shrapnel hit and another injured woman was near the parking lot where she is fully conscious and suffering from shrapnel injuries to her limbs."
"We gave the man medical treatment that included resuscitation and medication and evacuated him in an MDA intensive-care vehicle to the hospital in very serious condition. Another injured woman was evacuated from the scene in mild-to-moderate condition," they said.
Lebanon's Al Mayadeen, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, said that three drones infiltrated Israel in the latest wave of attacks. The Iran-backed terror group took credit for at least seven launches on Tuesday.
Rocket and drone alerts sounded in the Western Galilee. Footage posted to social media appeared to show a drone flying over Nahariya and Acre.
CCTV captured the moment that a suicide drone apparently hit the road in Mazra’a. According to reports, a car was directly hit. The video footage appeared to show vehicles driving very close to the point of impact.
The attacks came shortly after the IDF announced that the Israeli Air Force struck a Hezbollah "military" structure in the area of Nabatiyeh in Southern Lebanon that was used by terrorists to attack Israel.
Additionally, the IAF struck a Hezbollah structure in the area of Khiam.
A back-and-forth from Southern Lebanon
Earlier on Tuesday, Lebanon's health ministry said four people were killed in an alleged Israeli strike in the town of Maifadoun in Southern Lebanon. A source told AFP that they were all Hezbollah terrorists.
The IDF said on Monday evening that the IAF struck senior Hezbollah terrorist Ali Jamal Aldin Jawad in the area of Ebba, also in Southern Lebanon.
An IDF officer and soldier were moderately wounded when a Hezbollah suicide drone launched from Lebanon scored a direct hit near Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar in the Hula Valley overnight on Sunday.
Hezbollah has attacked northern Israel nearly every day since joining the war in support of Gaza-based Hamas on Oct. 8, killing more than 20 people and causing widespread damage. Tens of thousands of Israeli civilians remain internally displaced due to the ongoing violence.
The terror group has vowed revenge for last week’s targeted killing by Israel of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut.
Shukr was responsible for a rocket attack that killed 12 children in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights, on July 27, as well as a 1983 bombing that killed 241 U.S. service members in Beirut.
