Israel prepares “response” to Golan Heights attack as children are buried in Majdal Shams. Lebanese government rules out Hezbollah launching “direct attack” on Golan Heights.
Israel ha bombed seven regions in the interior and south of Lebanonin a first response to yesterday’s attack attributed to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, the most serious on that border since October, in which 12 children and young people were killed in the Syrian-Druze town of Majdal Shamsin the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which They were buried this Sunday with the presence of thousands of people.
Given the seriousness of the situation, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuwho was visiting the US, brought forward his return and landed at Tel Aviv airport around noon, from where he travelled to the Kirya base for an “assessment of the situation” and then convened the political and security cabinet to “decide the next steps.”
“Hezbollah will pay a high price that it has not paid so far,” Netanyahu warned last night. The US also points to Hezbollah as the perpetrator, although The Shiite group continues to deny responsibility for the attack.
He Government of Lebanon He also does not believe that what happened was a “direct attack” by Hezbollah. The Lebanese Foreign Minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, has ruled out “the theory that Hezbollah carried out the attack against the town of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan, since since the beginning of the conflict it has not fired on civilian sites, but on military positions.”
The minister has raised other scenarios, such as that This attack “was the work of other organizations, an Israeli error or a mistake by Hezbollah.” He has therefore called for an international investigation to be opened to clarify what happened, as well as “holding a meeting of the tripartite committee through UNIFIL (the UN mission in Lebanon) to clarify the truth of what happened.”
For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Syria The Israeli occupation entity has accused Israel of being responsible for the deaths of the 12 children and adolescents in Majdal Shams. “The Israeli occupation entity committed an atrocious crime yesterday in Majdal Shams, in the Syrian Golan occupied since 1967, and then blamed the Lebanese national resistance of Hezbollah for its crime,” they denounced.
Israeli ministers booed at children’s funeral
Thousands of citizens, most of them Druze dressed in black, have gathered on the streets, rooftops and balconies as the white coffins with the deceased minors, aged between 10 and 16, passed by. funeral honors.
“The images of horror will never be erased,” Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif read at the ceremony, saying that this “dark Saturday” will remain “etched in memory as a low point in humanity.”
Some of the ministers of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who were present at the funeral, such as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Economy Minister Nir Barkat, were booed and heckled by some of the attendees.
“You have abandoned us for nine months and now you are here,” some of the protesters shouted, according to the Israeli newspaper. Times of Israel.
Egypt calls on ‘influential forces’ to intervene to prevent regional war
Egypt, for its part, has asked this Sunday the “influential forces” of the international community to intervene “immediately” to prevent the expansion of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Migration has warned of the “new disastrous consequences” that the people of the region could suffer in case the situation escalates and a regional war spreads in Lebanon.
“The Arab Republic of Egypt warns of the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon, in the context of recent events in the town of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Syrian Golan, which could lead the region to fall into a comprehensive regional war,” the Egyptian department said in a statement, stressing the importance of “supporting Lebanon, its people and its institutions, and avoiding war.”
Egypt has also renewed its warning of the dangers of Israel continuing its war on the Gaza Stripdemanding “the need to achieve an immediate ceasefire and an end to human suffering in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible,” the note said.
This Sunday, a religious celebration is taking place in Rome.Meeting between the intelligence chiefs of Israel, the United States, Egypt and Qatar -these last three mediators- to negotiate an agreement truce in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Eitb
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