▲ A view of the funeral of the 12 minors between 10 and 16 years old who died when a rocket hit a football field in the municipality of Majdal Shams, a territory occupied by Israel seized from Syria in 1967. The Israeli army accused the Lebanese organization Hezbollah of perpetrating the attack.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, July 29, 2024, p. 28
Tel Aviv., Israel’s military-political cabinet authorized yesterday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant to decide the form and timing of the response against the terrorist organization Hezbollah for the attack on the Golan Heights, attributed to the Lebanese Shiite movement, which in turn denied its involvement in the bombing.
Finance and Security Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, respectively, abstained in the final vote, the newspaper reported. Yedioth Aharonoth.
Twelve children between the ages of 10 and 16 were killed the day before yesterday and at least 30 people were injured by a rocket that hit a football pitch in the municipality of Majdal Shams, a territory occupied by Israel, seized from Syria in 1967 and which no country recognises as Israeli, except the United States, which did so in 2019, during the government of Donald Trump.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blames Hezbollah for the attack and maintains that the rocket fired was a Falaq-1 Iranian-made with a warhead containing more than 50 kilos of explosives.
In retaliation, Israel shelled Hezbollah weapons depots and other targets in Chabriha, Borj El Chmali and Beqaa, Kfarkela, Rab El Thalathine, Khiam and Tayr Harfa on Saturday night.
Israel on Monday continued its heavy artillery offensive against 15 towns in eastern and southern Lebanon in the regions of Baalbek, Bint Jbeil, Marjayoun and Tyre, local television channel Al Manar reported.
IDF prepares for the next stage of fighting in the northsimultaneously with the war operations in the Gaza Strip, warned Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi.
Hezbollah, which said it had nothing to do with the attack, evacuated certain positions in the south and in the Bekaa Valley that could constitute, according to our estimates, an objective for Israela source close to the pro-Iranian movement said. Instead, he attributed the incident to an Israeli anti-aircraft interceptor missile.
The organization reported that it attacked Tel Aviv military positions in Shtula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, yesterday. Earlier, the IDF said that anti-aircraft sirens were activated in the town.
The Israeli army, quoted by Times of Israelconfirmed that two missiles were launched from Lebanese territory and that one of them hit a house, but no information was given on possible victims.
White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson blamed Hezbollah for the attack. It was their rocket, launched from an area they control.he noted.
Syria blamed Israel for the deaths, and Iran warned that the “apartheid “Israelis are seeking a fictitious scenario to divert public opinion and world attention from their massive crimes in Palestine.”
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said it was not an intentional attack and that the deaths of the 12 civilians could have been due to an Israeli error, a Hezbollah error or a terrorist attack. other organization.
He stressed that since the beginning of the conflict on the Lebanese border Hezbollah has not attacked civilian targets, only military positions.
France, Germany and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack.