Around 20 wounded as explosion hits north Israel school expedition: Officials
Emergency crews said one student was killed and 19 people were injured after an unexploded munition detonated during a school hike.
- On Monday, October 12, 2026, an explosion involving suspected unexploded ordnance killed one student and wounded 19 others during an ORT Ma'alot high school field trip near Kibbutz Yiftah along Israel's Lebanon border.
- Police reported the blast likely involved a cluster bomb from fighting three years ago, which detonated when a pupil picked it up near the Ramim Ridge hiking area.
- Magen David Adom declared a mass-casualty event at 2:53 p.m., dispatching paramedics, mobile intensive care units, and rescue helicopters to treat eight people in serious or moderate condition alongside others with minor injuries.
- Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered an investigation into the incident, while the Israel Defense Forces are reviewing whether the school trip received the required safety clearances for the route.
- This event reflects the persistent hazard of legacy munitions in northern Israel; an August explosion near Metula wounded six workers, two sustaining serious injuries requiring surgery.
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Likely unexploded ordnance kills teenager in northern Israel
JERUSALEM, Oct 12 - A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and 24 people were injured when what was most likely an unexploded ordnance went off during a school hiking trip near the border with Lebanon, Israel's ambulance service said on Monday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pointed out that, according to the first steps, the explosion was caused by a Hizbollah ammunition, an unexploited Shiite political and military organization in Lebanon that had fallen in the area.
Jerusalem, 12 Oct (EFE).- The Israeli Army attributed a preliminary unexploded cluster munition of the Lebanese Shia group Hizbulah the explosion that occurred this Monday in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, when a group of schoolchildren on a field trip passed through the area and that [...] The Israeli entrance attributed to a Hizbulah cluster munition the explosion in the north of the country was first published in HolaNews.
Some 20 students and teachers were injured near Kiryat Shmona, in an area dotted with munitions inherited from the war with Hezbollah, but the origin of the device is still unknown.
A teenager has been killed and several others injured in an explosion during a school trip near the Israel-Lebanon border, Israeli emergency services said.
One teenager killed, others wounded after explosion on Israeli school trip near Lebanon border
One teenager was killed and others were wounded after an explosion on an Israeli school trip near the Lebanon border, according to emergency response services. It's unclear when the munition was fired.
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