The Israeli army accuses Hezbollah of being behind the shootings, but the Lebanese Islamist movement denies being the author.
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Deadly rocket fire. Israeli emergency services announced Saturday, July 27, that the rocket that hit a soccer field in the annexed Golan Heights in northern Israel killed ten people and injured 19, according to the latest toll announced at 8 p.m. Of the latter, six are in critical condition, said Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.
In response, the Israeli army accused Hezbollah of being behind the shooting, carried out from Lebanon, and said “prepare to respond”. She later called the strike an attack. “the deadliest” against civilians since October 7, 2023 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel, which started the war in the Gaza Strip. However, the Lebanese Islamist movement denied being the author of the shot. Hezbollah and the israeli army exchange fire almost every daysince the attack of October 7.
Israeli police and the army confirmed that rockets hit several sites in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, including one that hit Majdal Shams. The city is located on the border between northern Israel and southern Lebanon and borders Jordan. Helicopters, ambulances and mobile intensive care units were deployed to the site, the army said.
The rocket fire came after four fighters from Lebanon’s Iran-backed Islamist Hezbollah movement were killed, a security source said. They were killed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Separately, an Israeli army commander said Friday that troops in the north of the country, where Israel shares a border with Lebanon, were preparing for a “decisive offensive” against Hezbollah, which claims attacks against Israel in support of its ally Hamas and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.