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Lebanon's foreign minister has condemned a rocket attack on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but he added that it does not give Israel a "license to kill."
Israel and the US have blamed Hezbollah, but the Iran-backed group has denied it was responsible for the attack that killed 12 children and teenagers and wounded 20 others.
The Israeli military said the rocket fired from Lebanon that crashed into a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams on Saturday was the deadliest attack on civilians since the October 7 attack by Hamas.
Speaking to Sky News' Alex Crawford, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib called for a UN investigation but said there was "no logic" that Hezbollah had been behind it.
" Whatever happened, we as a government condemn the killing of civilians, whoever they are, wherever they are, in the Middle East or around the world. So we condemn this incident that happened, because it was against civilians and against young people who were playing football. The second thing, we condemn whoever did this - whether Lebanese or Israeli ," he said.
He said the area is Syrian territory occupied by Israel and its residents are Syrians, so Israel's retaliation is not self-defense.
" And therefore it does not mean giving them a license to kill and destroy as they got in Gaza. The world should not give them permission to kill ," he said.
Overnight, the Israeli military said it struck a number of targets inside Lebanon, although their intensity was similar to months of cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
Hezbollah said it also carried out attacks, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that "every indication" pointed to the missile coming from Hezbollah. He said that Israel had the right to defend itself, but the US did not want the conflict to escalate./ SkyNews
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