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Rocket attack, Majdal Shams: Hezbollah denies involvement – Israel News

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At least nine children were killed and dozens more injured when a rocket hit a soccer field near a playground in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights, yesterday.

The rocket came from Lebanon, from where Hezbollah has been attacking Israel relentlessly since the Gaza war began. The Israeli military confirmed that Hezbollah fired the rocket.

But this time Hezbollah denied this accusation. Shortly after the attack, the Hezbollah-affiliated network Al-Mayadeen reported that a barrage of 100 rockets was fired shortly after the impact in Majdal Shams.

The leader of the Druze community, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, said the attack “crossed every possible red and black line”.

Why is this attack different from all other attacks?

All other attacks carried out from Lebanese territory so far were quickly attributed to Hezbollah and were not denied by the group.

In May, for example, two people were seriously injured when a Hezbollah-fired kamikaze drone hit the Metulla area and Hezbollah came running, throwing its hands in the air and excitedly taking credit for it.

In the same month, one soldier was seriously injured and two others slightly injured in a heavy rocket attack by Hezbollah.

Finally, in one of Hezbollah’s largest attacks since the war began, 14 IDF soldiers and four civilians were injured by two Hezbollah drones and two anti-tank missiles.

Smoke rises over northern Israel as hostilities erupt at the borders between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, July 21, 2024. (Source: REUTERS/Avi Ohayon)

It is no secret that Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy the Jewish state and the Jews in it, has somehow managed to gain sympathy from anti-Israel mobs abroad. The pressure on the terrorist organization to stop its violent campaign against northern Israel is therefore far less than on Hamas.

Hezbollah flags have flown at many anti-Israel protests in recent months, including outside a synagogue in Queens earlier this month, at an anti-Israel protest against U.S. President Joe Biden at the Manhattan Center in New York City in June, at a protest outside the Nova Massacre exhibit in New York City that same month, and throughout New York City during mass anti-Israel protests in April.

This is because Hezbollah has somehow managed to reframe its hateful and terror-filled campaign against Israel as a humanitarian campaign for justice for the Palestinians.

Needless to say, this makes little sense; how can killing civilians in northern Israel mean saving Palestinian civilians in Gaza?

Nevertheless, the argument remains: Hezbollah has made friends in the progressive West. It can justify its actions with its distorted views as long as it attacks representatives of the so-called Zionist occupation.

But what happens when the occupation mentioned above is not Jewish in nature? Exactly what we saw on Saturday: the denial of any wrongdoing.

After all, Majdal Shams is a Druze village. It is mainly inhabited by an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Suddenly the Jews are out of the picture and Hezbollah openly denies the attack, which is in complete contradiction to its previous actions.

This tells us exactly what Israelis have always known: that Hezbollah is using anti-Zionism as a pretext to eliminate Jews.

The extermination of the young children of the Druze in the Golan Heights, the vast majority of whom do not accept Israeli citizenship (despite the US recognition of Israel’s annexation in 2017), was clearly a huge mistake. We have all the evidence to show us that the attack was carried out by Hezbollah. There is no reason for them to deny it, unless they are proud of killing Jews and not Zionists.

The world’s blindness to what Israel has endured now faces another obstacle. The question is whether Israel’s critics will wake up, smell the flowers, and stop at nothing to support terrorist organizations and deny Israel’s right to self-defense.



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