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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, July 28, 2024, p. 20

Tel Aviv, Israel – At least 12 Israelis were killed yesterday, including children and teenagers, after a missile attack on a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, Syrian territory occupied by Israel, Israeli media reported.

Tel Aviv has blamed the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which has denied responsibility for the bombing, its spokesman Mohammed Afif said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the movement will pay a price so high that he has never paid before.

The White House yesterday condemned in a statement the offensive against the Druze people in northern Israel, calling it awful; In addition, he mentioned that his Support for Israel’s security is unwavering and unwavering against all Iranian-backed terrorist groups.

Hezbollah, for its part, reported the death of four of its members in an Israeli attack in the town of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon, and confirmed being responsible for the offensive against a building where there were Israeli soldiersin the town of Manara very close to Hula (Marjayoun), on the Israeli side of the border, in retaliation for the Kfar Kila attack.

The Lebanese group claims that there are victims of this attack. Since October 8, more than 2,000 people in Lebanon have been injured and nearly 500 have died due to clashes between Hezbollah and Israel. Iran’s ambassador in Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, said yesterday that his government does not expect and does not want to make war with Israel, although he accused it of create a play in reference to the Netanyahu government’s position of blaming the Lebanese Islamist group for the explosion in the Druze town.

Israeli warplanes have attacked at least five towns and villages in southern Lebanon in response to the shelling of the Golan Heights, Lebanese television channel Al Manar reported.

Meanwhile, thousands of protesters took to the streets of various Israeli cities yesterday to demand an end to hostilities, the release of hostages and the early and immediate holding of elections, also observing several minutes of silence in protest against the attacks in Majdal Shams.

Protests persist

One of the main focuses of the demonstrations was, as in previous weeks, the city of Tel Aviv, where relatives of some of the hostages who are still being held demanded by the Islamist group Hamas, that All those responsible must be held accountablethe newspaper reported Times of Israel.