Rocket kills 10 civilians in Israeli-annexed Golan, Hezbollah denies responsibility
Israel's emergency medical service said at least 10 people were killed in the annexed Golan Heights on Saturday by a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon.
The 10 were killed when a rocket hit a football pitch in the Arab town of Majdal Shams, where many residents retain Syrian nationality decades after the territory's occupation in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Magen David Adom said.
The rocket fire came after an Israeli strike killed four Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon prompting the Iran-backed group to announce a flurry of retaliatory rocket attacks against the Golan and northern Israel.
Magen David Adom reported 10 dead and 19 wounded after the rocket hit on the town of Majdal Shams.
The Israeli army said Hezbollah fired the deadly rocket.
"The Hezbollah terrorist organization is behind the rocket launch at a soccer field in Majdal Shams," the army said in a statement.
But Hezbollah denied it was responsible.
"The Islamic Resistance has no connection to this incident," it said, referring to its military wing.
The police and the army said rockets had struck multiple locations in the Golan, including Majdal Shams.
Ambulances, helicopters and mobile intensive care units were deployed to the site, the army said.
"We arrived at a football pitch and saw destruction and objects on fire. Injured people were lying on the grass," paramedic Idan Avshalom said in a statement issued by Magen David Adom.
An AFP correspondent saw medics carrying away the wounded for treatment.
"Officers and police bomb disposal experts from the northern district police are currently securing the area and searching for additional (rocket) remnants to eliminate any further risk to the public," the police said in a separate statement.
The rocket fire came after a Lebanese security source said an Israeli strike killed four Hezbollah fighters in the southern village of Kfar Kila.
Hezbollah, which has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since the Gaza war erupted last October, confirmed the deaths of four of its fighters.
It said it carried out a dozen retaliatory attacks on Israeli targets, nine in the space of two hours.
Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since the Gaza war erupted last October.
27 July 2024, 22:34
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It is time for Mikati to speak for the nation. Otherwise, the statement urging an “immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts” and condemned all attacks on civilians.", without specific mention of Majdal Shams, will hasten harm to Lebanon. His is the one voice that can avert a severe decree, just now ... less clearly could be too little .. later could be too late.
27 July 2024, 23:07
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From Twitter/X
"Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif, who is the overall leader of Druze in the occupied Syrian Golan called on a very harsh response, and demanded a very strong attack in Lebanon.”
" Smotrich calls for the assassination of Sayyed Nasrallah”
There appears to be a Druze problem here… even more so given the fact it was a faulty Iron Dome missile that hit the kids stadium. The video was very clear.
28 July 2024, 00:00
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I was just going to mention that, but you seem to have much stronger evidence.
28 July 2024, 07:34
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One of these days you are finally going to write the truth.
Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif is the overall leader of all the Druze citizens of the State of Israel including those on the Golan Heights. I wonder what the Druze leadership in Lebanon are now going to say now that Hizballah terrorists are murdering their co-religionists/
There is no such evidence of this being a faulty Iron Dome missile, but your propaganda masters couldn't care less about that. On the contraty, there is however proof that the missile was fired from the around the village of Shabaa in Lebanon.
