07/27/2024July 27, 2024
Deadly strike on football pitch on Golan Heights from Lebanon
medics say at least 10 people were killed in a barrage of rockets fired from into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Eli Bin, head of the Magen David Adom emergency service, said the victims were between the ages of 10 and 20.
The Israeli military said around 40 rockets were fired by the Lebanese group and one hit the football pitch in Majdal Shams, but the group denied it.
“There is no doubt that Hezbollah crossed all red lines,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Channel 12 news. “We are facing an all-out war.”
The strike on Majdal Shams followed an earlier Israeli airstrike on Kfarkila in southern Lebanon in which four suspected militants were killed.
The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted a military structure belonging to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah claimed at least four attacks, including with Katyusha rockets, in retaliation for the Kfarkila attacks.
A senior Hezbollah media representative, however, denied responsibility for the strike on Majdal Shams.
Hezbollah is both a Shiite political party and paramilitary organization in Lebanon. The group is designated a terrorist organization by the US, Germany and several Sunni Arab nations. The EU, meanwhile, designates its armed wing as a terrorist group.
lo/wd (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)
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