Hezbollah Drone Strike Kills 4 Soldiers and Wounds Dozens: Israel

Israel’s military said that four soldiers were killed and seven others severely wounded in a Hezbollah drone strike on an army base Sunday. The militant group later claimed responsibility for the attack on the base in Binyamina, a town in the north of Israel, saying it was retaliation for a series of Israeli strikes on Beirut earlier in the week that killed 22 people and injured more than 100, according to the Associated Press. Israeli rescue authorities said a total of 61 people were wounded, and that the injured had been transported to hospitals for treatment. It was not immediately clear whether the strike represented a failure of Israel’s advanced air-defense systems. “We are studying and investigating the incident — how a drone infiltrated without warning and struck the base,” said Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, according to The New York Times . “We must provide better defense.” Earlier on Sunday, the U.S. announced that it would send 100 American troops and a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to Israel, a sign of the U.S. stepping up its involvement in a deeply polarizing foreign conflict less than three weeks away from the presidential election.

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