ISRAEL: Rocket attack on Majdal Shams! Is a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon looming?

ISRAEL: Rocket attack on football field! Is a full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon looming?
Following the deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein announced a strike against the Lebanese Hezbollah militia. He called Hezbollah "Iran's front post in Lebanon" and blamed it for "a massacre in Majd al-Shams, the murder of innocent children and teenagers while they were playing football."
On Saturday, at least twelve people aged between 10 and 20 were killed in a rocket attack in the Druze town of Majd al-Shams in the Golan Heights, most of them children and teenagers. According to Israeli sources, an Iranian-made rocket hit a busy soccer field there. Marmorstein rejected Hezbollah's claim that it was not behind the attack. "The rocket that killed our boys and girls was an Iranian rocket, and Hezbollah is the only terrorist organization that has them in its arsenal."
Hezbollah has "crossed all red lines" with the attack. It is not an army fighting another army, "but rather a terrorist organization that deliberately shoots at civilians." However, experts believe it is also possible that the rocket missed its actual military target.
Marmorstein further stressed: "Israel will exercise its right and duty to defend itself and respond to the massacre." He called on the international community to "hold Iran and its terrorist offshoots, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, fully responsible."
The Israeli spokesman also said there was only one way to prevent a full-scale war, "which would also be devastating for Lebanon." Hezbollah must be forced to withdraw beyond the Litani River in accordance with a UN resolution. This is 30 kilometers from the border between Israel and Lebanon. "Now is the very last minute to do this diplomatically."
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