Israel Strikes Lebanese Towns After Blaming Hezbollah for 12 Deaths in Golan Heights



This doesn’t mean “the Lebanon-Israel war has started.”

It just means “maybe the war is getting ready to start.”

That’s all.

The Guardian:

Israeli jets struck southern Lebanon overnight as diplomats worked frantically to prevent a regional war after a rocket strike that killed 12 young people in the occupied Golan Heights.

Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, visited the scene of Saturday’s rocket attack in Majdal Shams, a predominantly Druze village, calling the strike “a terrible tragedy”.

The attack killed 12 children between the ages of 10 and 16 as they were playing football and wounded dozens more.

Hezbollah is responsible for it and they will pay the price,” said Gallant on Sunday, as thousands of mourners gathered in the village for the victims’ funeral ceremonies.

The Israeli foreign ministry echoed his message, saying the Lebanese militant group had “crossed all red lines”, and accused them of having deliberately targeted civilians.

Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the strike, claiming that a projectile from Israel’s Iron Dome defence system had hit the town, countering a volley of rocket fire the group said had targeted Israeli military sites.

In apparent retaliation for the attack, Israel conducted a series of airstrikes on towns in southern Lebanon overnight on Saturday, as well as one close to the Bekaa valley.

The Golan Heights was taken from Syria by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in 1981 in a move not recognised by most countries.

The Lebanon-Israel war is always getting ready to start.

Just watch this spot, I guess.

It should be nuts.