The death toll of the Hezbollah rocket attack on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams has risen to 12, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says in a press conference from the scene.
He identifies the rocket that struck a soccer field where children were playing as an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket.
“A Falaq-1 rocket struck here in the soccer field, it is an Iranian rocket, manufactured in Iran, a rocket with a warhead of over 50 kilograms of explosives,” he says in a press conference.
“The forensic findings at the scene point to this rocket. Falaq-1 is only in use by the Hezbollah terror group, which carried out this attack from Chebaa,” Hagari says.
Hezbollah in an earlier statement said it fired one Falaq rocket at an Israeli army base just north of Majdal Shams, although it has denied attacking the town
IDF’s Arabic spokesman names Hezbollah commander responsible for Majdal Shams attack
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, reveals the name of the Hezbollah commander who directed the deadly rocket attack on Majdal Shams.
He says the attack was directed by Ali Muhammad Yahya, who is the commander of a rocket launching site in the Chebaa area in southern Lebanon.
“Despite its attempts to deny: Hezbollah is responsible for the massacre in Majdal Shams and the killing of children and boys on the soccer field,” Adraee adds.
Netanyahu: Israel won’t let deadly Hezbollah strike ‘pass in silence’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he was “shocked” to see the attack by Hezbollah on Majdal Shams.
“Among the murdered were small children who were playing soccer,” he says in a video statement, “and others were also other murdered. Our hearts are all broken by these sights.”
“We embrace the families, embrace the entire Druze community in its difficult time, which is also our difficult time,” he says.
Netanyahu pledges that Israel will “not let this pass in silence.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to land back in Israel at noon, according to a member of his entourage.
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Speaking with Druze leader, Gallant says Israel will ‘strike the enemy hard’
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tells Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, that the country will “strike the enemy hard,” in response to Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attack.
Gallant says on X that he spoke with Tarif to “share in the heavy sorrow that befell the Druze community and the entire Israeli nation, in light of Hezbollah’s murderous attack on Majdal Shams.”
“In my conversation with the sheikh, I emphasized — we will strike the enemy hard,” he adds.
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