Middle East latest: Four dead and dozens hurt in a strike in northern Israeli city of Binyamina using 'squadron of drones'

Analysis: Binyamina attack is Israel's first major setback after weeks of progress in Lebanon

Tonight's drone attack on Binyamina is Israel's "first major setback" after two weeks of progress in Lebanon, says our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn.

The Israeli military says four people died in the strike, which hit an army base adjacent to the town, located on Israel's Mediterranean coast.

The IDF has stepped up its attacks on what it says are Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in recent weeks, launching a ground incursion into the country last month.

It says these attacks have helped kill much of Hezbollah's leadership, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah following an airstrike on Beirut on 27 September.

But after weeks of what it sees as progress in Lebanon, tonight's strike represents a big setback for Israel, says Waghorn.

"Most of Hezbollah's attacks by drones and missiles and other forms of projectiles have threatened and terrorised the north of Israel," he says, reporting from northern Israel.

"But this was further south. It was south of Haifa. We're here 40 minutes drive north of Tel Aviv and just 20 miles north of here is where the attacks happened. 

"So for that to have happened is extraordinary. It is going to be, I think, a very serious bit of news for Israelis to digest.

"It is the first major setback for the Israelis since their invasion of Lebanon began and a major development in this war.

"The fact that Hezbollah is able to carry out such a devastating attack, really in the centre of Israel, just below the northern city of Haifa, I think gives a very clear indication of that invasion is not all going in the right direction."

Victims of the attack said there were many people gathered together when the strike hit (see 22.47 post).

"We've seen pictures that seem to have been taken by soldiers, showing this attack was on a canteen in the military base at the time of dinner," says Waghorn. 

"It does seem that Hezbollah have the ability to strike a place where the maximum number of many soldiers were gathered for evening supper, and they were able to get a drone through to damage that building and to kill four soldiers."