Chief of Staff at base hit by UAV:
'You acted well, treating and evacuating the injured'
'We are at war, and an attack on a training base on the home front is difficult and the results are painful,' IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi says.
'We are at war, and an attack on a training base on the home front is difficult and the results are painful,' IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi says.
US Secretary of Defense speaks to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, expresses condolences over deaths of four soldiers killed when a Hezbollah drone hit a base near Binyamina.
Father of squad commander serving at the Golani Brigade training base which was hit by a Hezbollah UAV describes the scene of the attack, says his son had wanted to fight in Lebanon.
The 'Mitgaysim' site features a video tour of the Golani Brigade training base which was hit by a Hezbollah UAV, in an incident which killed four soldiers and injured over 60 others.
UAV launched by Hezbollah directly hits dining room at the Golani Brigade training base. Four IDF soldiers killed and an additional seven severely injured. The incident is under investigation.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits Golani Brigade training base hit by Hezbollah UAV, promises incident will be investigated, 'concentrated effort' to find solutions for UAV threat.
IAF confirms UAV reported to police was innocent, just prior to a deadly UAV strike in Binyamina. It is not clear that it was the same UAV.
The victims who were wounded in the kamikaze drone strike on the Golani Training Base were taken to nine different hospitals. Seven are in serious condition and nine are in moderate condition.
Sergeant Yosef Hieb was killed one week before his the 33rd anniversary of his grandfather's death in Lebanon.
Four are in critical condition, three are in serious condition, and 18 are in moderate condition. Rescue teams evacuate the victims to hospitals. Eyewitnesses reported that no siren was sounded before the UAV exploded.
A fragment from the UAV that exploded in Binyamina stuck in the kippah of one of the wounded. It was only when he arrived at Laniado Hospital that he noticed that "something was stuck in the kippah." The hospital says that the shrapnel did not scratch the wounded man.