Four soldiers accept been dead and 58 afflicted in a bombinate bang targeting an army abject in arctic Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said.
The IDF added seven soldiers had been acutely afflicted in the advance on a abject "adjacent to Binyamina" - a boondocks about 20 afar (33km) to the south of Haifa.
Hezbollah has claimed albatross for the attack, which it said targeted a training affected of the IDF's Golani Brigade in the area, which is based amid Tel Aviv and Haifa.
The armed group's media appointment said the bang was in acknowledgment to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon and Beirut on Thursday.
The accumulation said it targeted the affected in arctic Israel application a "swarm of drones".
The advance was one of the better on an Israeli position in added than a year.
The Israeli ambulance service, Magen David Adom (MDA), beforehand said 61 bodies had been afflicted in the advance - including three critically. It added 37 of them had been taken to eight bounded hospitals, either by ambulance or helicopter.
In a account afore the IDF accepted the deaths, MDA said that alongside the three alarmingly injured, 18 of the victims were in a abstinent condition, 31 abiding balmy injuries and nine bodies were "suffering anxiety".
The acumen for the alterity in the cardinal of analytical injuries amid MDA and the IDF is not clear.
Israeli censorship rules had initially prevented media outlets advertisement absolutely area or what was targeted, afore the IDF accepted it was the Binyamina base.
Some Israeli media outlets accept arise the abject was hit by a low-level bombinate launched from Lebanon - a almost artless weapon that appears not to accept activated early-warning alarms.
Throughout the evening, television bulletins, amusing media posts and online letters showed footage of emergency vehicles, including helicopters, demography casualties to hospitals beyond arctic Israel.
Many of the blood-soaked accept been abandoned to Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre in adjacent Hadera - with others actuality taken to hospitals in Tel Hashomer, Haifa, Afula and Netanya.
Details are still deficient but abounding of the afflicted arise to accept been in a common canteen at the time and were bent absolutely by surprise. Images circulating on amusing media arise to appearance an abandoned blend anteroom with a aperture in the roof.
