“With the help of United Hatzalah ambulance teams, we provided assistance to over 60 wounded people with varying degrees of injuries – critical, serious, moderate and mild,” the rescue service United Hatzalah said in a statement posted on Facebook.

Earlier Sunday, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is at war with Israel, said it had launched “a squadron of attack drones” at a military training camp in Binyamina, south of Haifa, in response to Israeli air strikes on the country.

Emergency service provider Magen David Adom (MDA) said the incident was the result of a “very serious” drone strike.

“When we arrived, we saw a very serious scene of a UAV hit,” Rafi Sheva, a senior official with MDA, told AFP.

“There were many wounded, wounded by the blast and wounded by shrapnels, who were injured in all parts of their bodies,” he added.

“This is a major incident in terms of casualties.”

The incident comes two days after air raid sirens sounded in central Israel after two aerial drones entered the country from Lebanon. At least one building north of Tel Aviv was damaged during the incident.

Hezbollah has been regularly firing rockets and drones across the border into Israel for more than a year, but has reached further since late September when fighting escalated.

Israel’s sophisticated air defences, including the Iron Dome system, have intercepted most of the projectiles, with few casualties caused by strikes or falling debris.