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A 15-year-old was killed and roughly 20 to 24 others injured on 12 October 2026 when unexploded ordnance detonated near the Ramim Ridge area in northern Israel close to the Lebanese border. Students and teachers from the ORT Ma'alot school were hiking when a teenager picked up the munition, triggering the blast; Israeli authorities believe it was a submunition from a Hezbollah rocket, with two injured in serious condition and the rest moderately or lightly hurt. The incident underscores the lingering danger posed by unexploded ordnance from previous Israel-Hezbollah fighting along the northern border.