MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights/JERUSALEM - Israel's security cabinet on Sunday (July 28) authorised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to decide on the 'manner and timing' of a response to a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 teenagers and children, and which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese...
Emergency personnel inspect the area after rockets were launched across Lebanon's border with Israel, at a soccer pitch in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, July 27.
After the meeting ended, Netanyahu's office said the cabinet "authorised the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister to decide on the manner and timing of the response."'The White House on Sunday also blamed Hezbollah for the Majdal Shams strike. "This attack was conducted by Lebanese Hezbollah. It was their rocket, and launched from an area they control," it said in a statement.
Britain expressed concern at further escalation while Egypt said the attack could spill "into a comprehensive regional war." Hezbollah initially announced it fired rockets at Israeli military sites in the Golan Heights, but said it had "absolutely nothing" to do with the attack on Majdal Shams.However, Israel said the rocket was an Iranian-made missile fired from an area north of the village of Chebaa in southern Lebanon, placing the blame squarely on Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
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