At least 10 dead in Israel-held Golan Heights as rocket hits football pitch hours after an IDF strike on Lebanon
AT LEAST 10 people have been killed and dozens injured in a rocket strike on a football field in Israel-occupied Golan Heights, a rescue official has said.
Israel has blamed the attack on militant group Hezbollah, who operate out of southern Lebanon, after months tit-for-tat strikes with Israel
It comes as the Iran-backed terror proxy group Hezbollah, who operate out of southern Lebanon, have been exchanging tit-for-tat strikes with Israel for months.
The attack on Saturday came just hours after an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon killed three members of the militant group.
Hezbollah has admitted to hitting Golan Heights, but said it struck a military base in retaliation for an Israeli attack on a village in Lebanon.
Eli Bin, the head of a local Israeli rescue service, said the people hit in the football pitch strike are between 10 and 20 years old.
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group that supports Hamas, has launched renewed attacks against Israel since war broke out in October last year.
Now, after almost a year of bloody warfare in the Gaza Strip, a full-blown conflict between the two is looking increasingly likely.
Chief spokesman for Hezbollah, Mohammed Afif, told The Associated Press that they categorically deny carrying out an attack on Majdal Shams.
The Israeli military said in a statement today that their intelligence points to it being an attack by the militant group.
Israel’s Defence Forces (IDF) have been gearing up for a possible invasion by Hezbollah – and preparing to defend against one – for some time.
The militant group is thought to have 30,000 to 50,000 fighters and between 120,000 and 200,000 missiles, rockets, attack and reconnaissance drones.
