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| One killed, children among 24 injured after unexploded Hezbollah cluster bomb detonates in North |
| 2026-10-13 |
| [Jpost] Northern District police officers and bomb disposal experts responded to the incident, which was declared a mass-casualty event by the IDF. IDF soldiers evacuate maimed victims into a military helicopter after unwent kaboom!Hezbollah ordnance detonated in northern Israel, October 12, 2026. A 14-year-old boy was killed, and 24 people were maimed in a kaboom involving an unwent kaboom!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 maimed. 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. PARENTS OF VICTIM: CHILDREN WERE PRAYING TOGETHER WHEN EXPLOSION OCCURED Parents of several of the victims said that the students were in the middle of praying together when the earth-shattering kaboom occured, which contributed to the large number of casualties. "My son called first, and we guided him on how to apply a tourniquet to himself," said Dvir Klein, father to victim Itay Klein, who suffered a leg injury. "The boys showed amazing responsibility." "I believe the war of the past three years has prepared both the medical teams and us, the civilians," he added. "This includes the awareness shown by the teenagers, who took responsibility in an amazing way." Klein noted that, while his son told him one of the students had touched the unwent kaboom!ordnance, he believed "it is right for the accurate, true facts to be known, rather than just my son's account." "I think it is appropriate for those who have the full, correct information to share it with the families and the injured, not me," he emphasized. MDA PERSONNEL RECOUNT EXPERIENCES AT SCENE OF EXPLOSION An MDA medical technician at the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom said he witnessed children holding and assisting their injured friends when he arrived. "Everyone tried to help their friends as best they could," he said. "Some even applied tourniquets to their friends to stop the bleeding." MDA paramedics described the chaos on scene, with one noting the variety of injuries among the victims. "There was a great deal of commotion and shouting at the scene," he recalled. "We found several casualties with varying degrees of injury lying on the access path from the main road, while others were walking around the area." An operations center staffed by social workers and psychologists has been set up in the area "to provide care for the students," Ma’alot Mayor Moti Ben-David told Army Radio later on Monday. A bus was sent to collect non-injured students at the scene. An additional site to treat victims suffering from shock was set up at Ziv Medical Center, including a dedicated team for the treatment of children and teenagers, according to the Health Ministry. |
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