Children and teens among 12 dead in Golan Heights attack that Israel blames on Hezbollah, raising fears of major escalation | CNN
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At least 12 people, including children, were killed when multiple rockets hit a village in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights Saturday, Israeli officials said, in an attack that has raised fears of a major escalation in the long-running conflict.

From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they’ve backpedaled on it.

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UPDATE: 10 dead, 6 in critical, 3 moderate, 4 light, and several dozen unadmitted injured people

  • geneva_convenienceEnglish
    1513·
    4 months ago

    Reports say hezbollah has never claimed this attack, when did they claim it? Normally when hezbollah strikes somewhere they always take credit.

    It was also in an area with a mostly druze arab population which does not serve in the idf. Hezbollah has no reason to strike there.

    This has many indications of a false flag.

    • Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      93·
      4 months ago

      Druze serve in the IDF.

      Edit: Although it’s true that Druze in the Golan are different than the rest of the Druze in Israel, in that some of them don’t serve.

      Either way: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nine-people-killed-rocket-hits-football-pitch-israeli-occupied-golan-israel-2024-07-27/

      Speaking with reporters at Majdal Shams, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

      Hezbollah had earlier announced firing a Falaq-1 missile on Saturday, saying it had targeted an Israeli military headquarters.

      • geneva_convenienceEnglish
        63·
        4 months ago

        It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.

        Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

        Daniel Hagari is the man that has lied about everything in Gaza for months. If it was an Iranian missile I expect to see proof.

          • geneva_convenienceEnglish
            43·
            4 months ago

            Haaretz articles are hit or mis. This article is a massive miss. 4 paragraphs in and I’m still wading through the Israeli propaganda before clicking the red cross button.

    • ApexHunterEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      More likely it was a rocket that failed / went off course.