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Israel has vowed retaliation after a recent strike on Golan Heights by Hezbollah, and some strikes have already been executed.
12 children were killed over the weekend after about 30 rockets struck a soccer field in the area known Golan Heights, which is disputed between Israel and Syria. The United States and Israel investigated and blamed the attack on Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon. Hezbollah has strongly denied any connection to the strike, but Israel has confirmed that it was an Iranian-made missile and was launched from southern Lebanon.
The kids were playing when the missiles smashed into the pitch, located in the Majdal Shams neighborhood, killing 12 and injuring dozens of others in the area. 11 of the children were identified and given funerals, while the 12th one remained missing until his body was found. He later had a funeral of his own.
Lebanon then braced for a response from Israel, with numerous flights at Beirut's airport being canceled and delayed in fears of another attack. However, they maintained that while they would not get involved in any sort of war, they would still support Hezbollah. Ministers in Israel later approved any sort of retaliation, and Israeli fighter jets dropped bombs on multiple areas in Lebanon on Sunday and struck several other targets during the night. The incident has increased fears of an all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel, which would further exacerbate the humanitarian crisis going on in the region.
Tensions are still extremely high between Israel and other Iran-backed groups, such as Yemen's Houthis, but several nations are attempting to cool the agitation between them. However, Hezbollah and the Houthis have confirmed that they will not back down until Israel ends its war in Gaza, which getting close to its one-year mark-- a grim milestone for the conflict as it approaches a death toll of 40,000 Palestinians.
This also comes just after 19 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Sunday. 10 of those were killed in a strike on a home in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, and another four died on a strike on some tents in the designated humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi. Multiple bodies were seen at the nearby Nasser Hospital, which has been flooded with distraught patients ever since the war began.
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