A day after 4 soldiers killed in strike, resident of nearby Kafr Qara asks how terror group knew about the base, and ‘what if next time they fire and are slightly off target?’
Israelis living near an Israel Defense Forces base hit by a deadly Hezbollah drone strike on Sunday were shaken by the sound of the loud explosion, then of multiple ambulances arriving, sending fears soaring during an already tense period.
Four Israeli soldiers, all 19, were killed Sunday night by a drone at the Golani training base near Binyamina in north-central Israel — the deadliest strike on Israeli soil since the war between Israel and the Lebanese terror group intensified last month.
A further 58 soldiers were wounded in the attack, with 40 still hospitalized as of Monday morning. An official investigation found that the explosive-laden drone hit the base while soldiers were eating dinner.
“Last night was crazy,” Yousef, the manager of a restaurant in the nearby village of Kafr Qara, told AFP, declining to give his full name for safety reasons. “There was a huge boom and then suddenly ambulances started driving past, first one, then two, then three and more and more.”