Ten dead and dozens injured in rocket attack on the Golan Heights

July 27 (UPI) – At least ten people were killed and more than 34 injured in a rocket attack on a football field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Saturday night.

Israel Defense Forces officials said Hezbollah was responsible for the direct hit on a soccer field near a playground in the Majdal Shams area of ​​the Golan Heights.

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Magen David Adom teams and Israeli Defense Force helicopters transported the dead and injured to nearby hospitals.

IDF officials said many of those killed and injured were children and teenagers between the ages of 10 and 20, but did not provide details on the number.

The rocket attack on the Majdal Shams area came several hours after an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon killed three Hezbollah fighters.

Hezbollah’s leadership denies responsibility for the rocket attack, but Israeli forces said they were tracking a projectile that entered the area from Lebanon.

Hezbollah said its fighters attacked an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights with Katyusha rockets in response to Israeli air strikes on Saturday.

Hezbollah said three of its fighters were killed in the Israeli airstrike, but did not say where the attack took place.

The Israeli military said the Israeli air force had attacked a weapons depot occupied by Hezbollah fighters in the border town of Kfar Kila.

The militants were in the depot when the airstrike took place.

The attack on the Golan Heights is the deadliest attack so far since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began following the Hamas attack on civilians in Israel on October 7.

Israel captured the Golan Heights after Syria attacked Israel in 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981.