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White House: Hezbollah behind ‘brutal’ attack on Golan Heights that killed 12 people

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The White House said on Sunday that the rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights was “carried out by the Lebanese Hezbollah.”

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson called the attack “horrific” and said in a statement: “It was their missile and it was fired from territory they control. The attack must be condemned worldwide.”

The Israeli military said the teenagers were hit on Saturday by an Iranian-made missile with a 50-kilogram warhead fired by the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group at a soccer field in the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams.

“Our support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering in the face of all Iranian-backed threats, including Hezbollah,” Watson said.

“We have been in ongoing discussions with our Israeli and Lebanese counterparts since the horrific attack,” she added.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic presidential candidate, also condemned the attack in similar terms to the White House.

Harris “has been briefed and is closely monitoring the horrific Hezbollah attack on a soccer field in Majdal Shams,” her NSC adviser Phil Gordon wrote on X.

“It condemns this cruel attack and mourns all those killed and injured.”

Hezbollah said it had nothing to do with the incident.

The group described its recent cross-border shelling as an act of support for Palestinian Islamists from Hamas, who have been fighting the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since October 7, when they attacked southern Israel.

According to an AFP count, at least 527 people have been killed in Lebanon since then as a result of the violence, most of them fighters, but also 104 civilians.

On the Israeli side, according to Israeli authorities, 22 soldiers and 24 civilians were killed in the cross-border operation.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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