2024-07-28 10:44:36
Beirut, Lebanon – Rocket fire on the Golan Heights killed twelve people, Israel blamed Hezbollah and said it was “preparing to answer“.
Published on: 07/28/2024 – 12:44Edited: 07/28/2024 – 14:57
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The Lebanese-Israeli conflict, where Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been fighting since October 8th, intensified this Saturday, July 27th.
On the Lebanese side, four Shiite fighters were killed in an Israeli attack.
In the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported that at least 12 people, aged between 10 and 20, died when a projectile fell on a football field in the Druze town of Majdel Shams.
The Israeli army announced in a statement that “The terrorist group Hezbollah was behind the rocket fire at a football field in Majdal Shams“.
For his part, a person responsible for the Hezbollah quoted by Reuters denied “any responsibility for the attack“killing ten people and injuring 19 others.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog also accused Hezbollah of “violently attack and kill children today, whose only crime is going out to play football. They never came back“, he said in a statement.
A little earlier on the same day, Hassan Nasrallah’s group has claimed four other jobs. Shia fighters fired more than 150 Katyusha rockets and launched several groups of suicide drones. Hezbollah operations increased in the afternoon, with seven attacks in less than three hours.
Among the targets by Hezbollah are the artillery batteries in Zaoura, in the Golan, the headquarters of the Israeli army located in the Shebaa farms, occupied by Israel and claimed by Lebanon, and in the Galilee finger, all areas is in the Golan. The heights, occupied and annexed by Israel.
Answer from Israel
In response to this rocket fire, Israeli planes attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon from Saturday night to Sunday.
Israeli forces confirmed that they were targeted during the night “many Hezbollah terrorist targets“located well inland and in the southern part of Lebanon’s territory, adding that weapons depots and “terrorist infrastructure” were targeted in particular.
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