Israel prepares “a response” to the Golan Heights attack, while the dead minors are buried in Majdal Shams. The government of Lebanon rules out that Hezbollah has launched a “direct attack” on the Golan.
Israel ha bombed seven regions in the interior and southern Lebanonin an initial response to yesterday’s attack which he attributed to the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, the most serious on that border since October, in which Twelve children and young people died in the Syrian Druze town of Majdal Shamsin the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which They were buried this Sunday with the presence of thousands of people.
Given the seriousness of the situation, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwho was visiting the United States, advanced his return and landed at Tel Aviv airport around noon, from where he went to the Kirya base for a “situation assessment” and then convened the political cabinet to determine next steps.
“Hezbollah will pay a high price that it has not paid so far,” Netanyahu warned last night. However, the US also points to Hezbollah’s responsibility The Shiite group continues to deny responsibility for the attack.
He Government of Lebanon Nor does he believe that what happened was a “direct attack” by Hezbollah. Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib has ruled out the theory that Hezbollah carried out the attack on the population of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Golan, since it has not fired on civilian sites since the beginning of the conflict, but rather on military positions.
The minister has proposed other scenarios, such as this attack “was the work of other organizations, an Israeli mistake or a Hezbollah mistake.” For this reason, he has asked for an international investigation to be opened to clarify what happened, and for “a meeting of the tripartite commission through UNIFIL (UN mission in Lebanon) to clarify the truth of what happened.”
For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused Israel of being responsible for the deaths of the twelve children and adolescents of Majdal Shams. “The Israeli occupation forces committed a heinous crime yesterday in Majdal Shams, in the Syrian Golan occupied since 1967, and then blamed the Lebanese National Resistance of Hezbollah for this crime,” they said.
Israeli ministers booed at children’s funerals
Thousands of civilians, most of them Druze in black clothes, have gathered at street level, on rooftops and on balconies as the white coffins pass by with the deceased minors, aged between 10 and 16, in their funeral honors.
“The images of horror will never be erased,” read during the ceremony, Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, who said that this “dark Saturday” “will remain etched in the memory as a low point in humanity.”
Some ministers from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who attended the funeral, such as Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Economy Minister Nir Barkat, were booed and insulted by some of those present.
“You abandoned us for nine months and now you are here,” some protesters shouted, according to the Israeli newspaper. Times of Israel.
Egypt calls on ‘influential forces’ to intervene to prevent regional war
Egypt, for its part, asked this Sunday the “influential forces” of the international community to intervene “immediately” to prevent the spread of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Migration has warned of the “new disastrous consequences” that the region’s population could suffer in case the situation escalates and a regional war breaks out in Lebanon.
“The Arab Republic of Egypt warns of the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon, in the context of the recent events in the town of Majdal Shams, in the occupied Syrian Golan, which could lead to the region falling into an all-out regional war,” the Egyptian department said in a note, stressing the importance of “supporting Lebanon, its people and its institutions, and avoiding war.”
Egypt has also renewed its warning of the dangers if Israel continues with its policies war on the Gaza StripThe note demands “the need to achieve an immediate ceasefire and end human suffering in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible”.
This very Sunday is celebrated in Romemeeting between the intelligence chiefs of Israel, the United States, Egypt and Qatar -these last three mediators- to negotiate an agreement file in the Gaza Strip.
Source: EITB
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