At least 20 injured in northern Israel explosion
Al Jazeera
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An explosion caused by unexploded ordnance near Israel's border with Lebanon has injured approximately 20 people, including eight in serious and moderate condition. The blast occurred Monday near the community of Neot Mordechai as Israelis were on a picnic or hiking in the area.
A blast caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel near the Lebanese border has injured approximately 20 people, police say.
Israel’s Magen David Adom said paramedics were treating “eight casualties in serious and moderate condition, as well as several additional casualties in mild condition” following the explosion on Monday, which police said occurred near the community of Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach.
Police officers from the Kiryat Shmona station (Northern District) are on-site, securing and cordoning off the area, while bomb disposal experts investigate the circumstances and source of the explosion.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said, the explosion happened around several Israelis who were on a picnic or a hike in the area, on the border with Lebanon, adding that some of the injured are described to be in critical condition.
“There is very little specific information as to what happened, what the source of that explosion was, but it’s certainly a reminder that Northern Israel, the upper Galilee and particularly the border with Lebanon remains an area where there is a military operation, with the Israeli military deployed and where thousands of munitions were used over the past 3 years”, Odeh said.
Odeh said the explosion had “mobilised” Israel’s political echelons, with the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu heading to the area, and the Israeli minister of National Security National Ben Gvir canceling a political engagement that was on his agenda.
Israel’s Magen David Adom said paramedics were treating “eight casualties in serious and moderate condition, as well as several additional casualties in mild condition” following the explosion on Monday, which police said occurred near the community of Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach.
Police officers from the Kiryat Shmona station (Northern District) are on-site, securing and cordoning off the area, while bomb disposal experts investigate the circumstances and source of the explosion.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said, the explosion happened around several Israelis who were on a picnic or a hike in the area, on the border with Lebanon, adding that some of the injured are described to be in critical condition.
“There is very little specific information as to what happened, what the source of that explosion was, but it’s certainly a reminder that Northern Israel, the upper Galilee and particularly the border with Lebanon remains an area where there is a military operation, with the Israeli military deployed and where thousands of munitions were used over the past 3 years”, Odeh said.
Odeh said the explosion had “mobilised” Israel’s political echelons, with the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu heading to the area, and the Israeli minister of National Security National Ben Gvir canceling a political engagement that was on his agenda.
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