That's what it was. Thousands of Mourners joined a
funeral procession on Sunday for 12 Children who were killed
in a rocket attack on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights
. It marks the single deadliest attack in Israel or
Israeli annexed territory since Hamas's assault sparked the Gaza war
on October 7 and it is fueling fears of significant
escalation between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Israeli
Defense Minister Yoav Galant said he visited the town of
Majdal Shams early on Sunday describing the site of the
attack as quote, a place where innocent girls and
boys were murdered during a soccer game. He vowed
to retaliate against Hezbollah for the strike. Hezbollah initially
announced it fired rockets at Israeli military sites in the
Golan Heights but denied involvement in the attack on Majdal
Shams. There is no justification for terrorism period and
every indication is that indeed the rockets were from where
the rocket was from. Hezbollah US, Secretary of
State Antony Blinken in Tokyo said Israel had the right
to defend itself. But he said Washington also did
not want to see further escalation in violence. We
don't want to see it spread that has been one
of our goals from day one from October 7th on
Majdal Shams says a Druze village, the Druze are
an Arab minority who practice a form of Islam and
make up more than half of the 40,000 strong population
of the Golan Heights territory captured from Syria by Israel
in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed in a
not recognized by most countries. Here's one resident who
calls himself Haitham. He says we need to strive
now to sign a deal and stop this damned war
. We want to live. We don't want to
die. Israeli. And Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon
have been exchanging fire for months but appeared to be
avoiding an escalation that could lead to all out war
. Saturday's strike threatened to tip the standoff into a
more dangerous phase. And United Nations officials urged maximum
restraint from both sides that the conflict has forced tens
of thousands of people in both Lebanon and Israel to
leave their homes.