Benjamin Netanyahu warns: Hezbollah will ‘pay a heavy price’ for attack on Golan Heights | World News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hezbollah that it would “pay a heavy price” for the Missile attack in which eleven teenagers were killed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region.

“Israel will not leave this murderous attack unanswered, and Hezbollah will pay a heavy price for it, a price it has never paid before,” Netanyahu told a local community leader, according to a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office.

In addition, the Israeli prime minister’s office said Netanyahu had decided to return “as soon as possible” from the United States, where he met President Joe Biden and addressed the U.S. Congress earlier this week.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has assured that it will prepare a “response” against Hezbollah.

“This attack shows the true face of Hezbollah – a terrorist organization that targets and murders children playing football on a Saturday night,” said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in a Video message on X (formerly Twitter).

He also called it the “deadliest attack” on Israeli civilians since October 7 last year, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, triggering the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

“As athletes from around the world compete in the #Olympics2024, Hezbollah is murdering the next generation of Israeli athletes. A group of children enjoying life’s simplest pleasures were murdered in cold blood when a Hezbollah rocket struck the soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights,” another IDF report said. post read.

However, Lebanon-based Hezbollah denied being behind the deadly attack.

According to the militant group, its military wing, the Islamic Resistance, had “no connection to this incident.”

The rocket attack came after an Israeli strike killed four Hezbollah fighters in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, sparking a retaliatory strike by the group, which has been engaged in almost daily exchanges of fire with the Israeli army since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

(With AFP inputs)