{"id":644193,"date":"2026-10-12T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644193\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:00:09","slug":"at-least-20-injured-in-northern-israel-explosion-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644193\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 injured in northern Israel explosion | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blast was caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel near the Lebanese border.<\/p>\n

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Published On 12 Oct 202612 Oct 2026<\/p>\n

A blast caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel near the Lebanese border has injured approximately 20 people, police say.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom said paramedics were treating \u201ceight casualties in serious and moderate condition, as well as several additional casualties in mild condition\u201d following the explosion on Monday, which police said occurred near the community of Neot Mordechai, between Kibbutz Manara and Kibbutz Yiftach.<\/p>\n

The incident injured both students and staff from a religious high school as they were on an outing, the municipality of the northern city of Maalot-Tarshiha said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said that some of the injured are described to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is very little specific information as to what happened, what the source of that explosion was, but it\u2019s 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\u201d, Odeh said.<\/p>\n

Odeh said the explosion had \u201cmobilised\u201d Israel\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Israelis living in the country\u2019s north were forced to leave the region after Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah group started firing rockets following Israel\u2019s genocidal 2023 war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In March, Israeli forces started occupying southern Lebanon following a renewal of hostilities after the US \u2013 Israel war on Iran.\u00a0
The military said soldiers and helicopters had been dispatched to the scene in northern Israel, a region from which Israeli forces have been pounding Lebanon, whose Hezbollah militants have fired periodic rockets across the border.<\/p>\n

Odeh says most residents have not returned because they \u201cdid not have the confidence\u201d that the government will be able to protect them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey saw the extensive damage that rockets were exacting on their communities and many them, according reports, have not been encouraged to return because the situation remains volatile\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blast was caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel near the Lebanese border. Published On 12 Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,46,88,47,43,48,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-644193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}