An Israeli military facility near the Lebanon border came under rocket attack by Hezbollah on Friday, March 6, injuring several soldiers, including the son of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The minister’s son suffered severe injuries to his abdomen and back, with his liver torn by shrapnel. The incident occurred in the western Galilee region amid ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, according to Roya News.

Local Israeli media reported that eight soldiers from the Givati and Golani brigades were wounded in the explosion, five of them critically. The injured were airlifted to Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where hospital authorities said the minister’s son was in stable condition, though some reports suggested his internal injuries were more serious than initially believed.

Finance Minister Smotrich confirmed that his son, Binyamin Hebron, was among the wounded and described the extent of his injuries. He noted that shrapnel had pierced his son’s abdomen and back, narrowly missing a major artery.