It is the deadliest strike in Israel, or Israeli-annexed territory, since the start of the conflict in Gaza.
At least nine people were critically wounded by a rocket fired from Lebanon that hit a football pitch in the Druze village of Majdal Shams.Emergency service staff and locals tend to the injured, at the site of the attack in the annexed Golan Heights.Emergency service staff and locals tend to the injured, at the site of the attack in the annexed Golan Heights.
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire in areas at or near the Lebanese-Israeli border since the eruption of the Gaza war, in a conflict that has stirred fears of a full-blown conflict between the heavily armed adversaries. A witness told Reuters: “It landed in the soccer pitch, all of them are children... many bodies and remains are in field we don’t know who they are.”His far-right coalition ally, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, called for tough retaliation, including against Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Mr Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for the Unifil peacekeeping force which operates in southern Lebanon, told Reuters its force commander was in contact with authorities in both Lebanon and Israel “to understand the details of the Majdal Shams incident and to maintain calm”.Hezbollah is the most powerful of a network of Iran-backed groups across the Middle East that have entered the fray in support of their Palestinian ally Hamas since October.
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