Rocket hits football pitch in Golan Heights, killing at least 11 | VOA News

At least 11 people, including children, were killed in a rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Saturday, Israel's ambulance service said.

Israel blamed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Israel's military called it a "very serious" event and said it would act accordingly.

"Hezbollah fired a rocket at children playing soccer in northern Israel. It then lied and claimed they did not carry out the attack," said the military's chief spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. He called it the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians since the Hamas attack on October 7 that sparked the war in Gaza. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981.

"There is no doubt that Hezbollah has crossed all the red lines here, and the response will reflect that," Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told Israeli Channel 12. "We are nearing the moment in which we face an all-out war."

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[Anisky]

Druze village. 11 little children and many wounded.

[t_y_]

Druze village not jewish village. Israel did this

[dadams]

So sad you all are going through this mess

[tcaldwell]

A witness told Reuters: "It landed in the soccer pitch, all of them are children ... many bodies and remains are in field we don't know who they are."

[colletteinatlanta]

❤ How are parents able to live without their children? This should not be happening.

[jaylendusean]

That's messed up, it ain't no turning back the hands of time

[lukeburgess]

I am heartbroken watching this. I am a proud American Christian, but I love all humans. I am on team civilian. Corrupt governments and ideologies do unspeakable things to keep power. I pray for the families of all wars. Most humans want the same thing. We just want to raise our families and be part of a community.

[EkTheCat]

Isn't Golan heights occupied land

[ibnlahad]

15'000 palestinian kids where's the news voa

[TheCoyoteTail]

Humans.

The cruelest of species on earth.

[reconotice]

Sooo don't attack innocent isrealis...

[Anmaghiz]

"Somebody" is up to something...

[HoneyBadger]

I pray for Israel. I pray for the innocent palestinians.

[drizzle]

Let not any nation ever say God never said. And behold I come quickly as it is written. Everything burns up and flees away as it is written.

[frostmediaprod]

All the 'Iron Dome' blamers, where is the second falling ?

[Trishisinthehouse]

Move, unless your freedom of movement has been taken from you or live in harms way, would you not seek shelter if it was raining.

[roko]

I'm so saddened, I'm in America, Im so sorry 😞😢

[SilkCrown]

Why is VOA content available on YouTube in the US? This is a violation of the Smith–Mundt Act, as content on YouTube can be region locked by the creator, thereby making this intentional dissemination to Americans.

[RicardoGallegos-im]

Lately war has been taking longer than usual.

[jasonolszanicky]

And? Maybe the genocide happening in Palestine is a direct cause of this?