Did Hezbollah Bomb An Israeli-Occupied Area And Kill 12 Children?
A rocket strike has killed 12 children in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and now Israel might be going to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
All out regional war in the Middle East may break out as Israel is now bombing Lebanon after a rocket strike hit an Israeli-occupied territory in Syria and killed 12 children.
On Saturday, July 27, a rocket strike hit a football field in Majdal Shams, an Arab city in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Golan Heights is located in southwestern Syria, and has been occupied by Israel since 1967 because of its strategic location bordering Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.
The strike killed 12 Druze children aged between 10 and 16 and injured at least 44 people.
The Druze are an ethnoreligious minority group found primarily in Israel, Lebanon and Syria, that has a distinct religion, culture and language, while also identifying as Arabs.
The Druze community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights consists of about 23,000 people who consider themselves Syrian and have refused Israeli citizenship since Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981.
Syria has tried unsuccessfully to reclaim the territory over the years,and a UN buffer zone has been established to maintain peace in the area.
Israel blamed Hezbollah for the attack, claiming it found evidence that an Iranian-made rocket at the scene.
But in a rare move, Hezbollah, which claims responsibility for attacks on Israel daily, denied responsibility.
Hezbollah said the rocket attack was an Israeli anti-rocket interceptor projectile, according to Axios, a US-based news website.
Following the attack on the Golan Heights, Israel’s military launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanon, saying Hezbollah “will pay a heavy price”
Israel’s latest strike on Monday, July 29, killed two people in southern Lebanon and injured three others, including a child.
On Tuesday, July 30, Israel carried out an airstrike on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, saying it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander who it said was behind the attack on Golan Heights.
The airstrike killed at least one woman and two children and wounded 74 people, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency.
Lebanon’s prime minister condemned Israel’s attack, calling it “blatant Israeli aggression”, adding that the airstrike happened near one of the capital’s largest hospitals.
This has escalated tensions in the area, with many fearing a regional war may soon break out in the Middle East.
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