One killed, children among 24 injured after unexploded Hezbollah cluster bomb detonates in North
A 14-year-old boy was killed, and 24 people were injured in an explosion involving an unexploded Hezbollah cluster munition between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftah in northern Israel on Monday, the IDF reported. The military has declared the incident a mass-casualty event.
Students and staff members from the ORT Ma’alot Yeshiva High School were among the victims, according to a statement by the local municipality. Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus said it admitted three teenagers and one adult to the trauma unit after evacuating them from the scene, while Safed’s Ziv Medical Center is treating 14 injured victims in total. Nahariya’s Galilee Medical Center is treating an additional six victims, one of whom was seriously injured.
The municipality noted that the students were in the area on an annual field trip, with the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority saying that a preliminary investigation showed evidence that one of the students put the Hezbollah cluster munition into his bag, which later detonated. According to Magen David Adom, two of those seriously injured were 14 years old, with eight of those moderately injured being children, as well as 12 of those with minor injuries.
IDF, rescue helicopters, bomb disposal teams, MDA paramedics respond
Northern District police officers and bomb disposal experts responded to the incident, as well as IDF and Hatzalah helicopters and MDA paramedics.
Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levi and Northern District Commander Meir Eliyahu also arrived on scene to assess the situation, with the commissioner later noting that the field trip “received approval from the relevant authorities” to the best of his knowledg
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