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Child and teenager among 12 killed in Golan Heights attack Israel blames on Hezbollah, raising fears of further escalation.
At least 12 people, including children, were killed when several rockets hit a village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Saturday, Israeli officials said, in an attack that has raised fears of a major escalation in the long-running conflict.
Israel said it had identified "nearly 30 shells" passing from Lebanon into Israeli territory in a barrage it blamed on the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and described as the deadliest against it since October 7. the rockets.
During the night after the attack, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets "deep inside Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon," according to a statement from the military on Sunday morning. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck a number of Hezbollah targets, including weapons depots and "terrorist infrastructure," the statement said.
The attack on the Golan Heights risks significantly escalating the situation on the countries' border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Saturday, vowing that Hezbollah "will pay a heavy price."
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire along the demarcation line for nearly 10 months with increasing ferocity, and even before Saturday's attack, regional leaders had warned that the conflict was reaching a boiling point.
In addition to the 12 deaths, at least 29 people were injured in the attack in Majdal Shams, a village that is home to a large Druze community.
About 20,000 Arabs live in the Golan Heights, an area Israel took from Syria in 1967 during the Six-Day War and annexed in 1981. Considered occupied territory under international law and UN Security Council resolutions. , the area is home to about 50,000 Israeli Jewish settlers and Druze. Most Druze there identify as Syrian and have rejected offers of Israeli citizenship.
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