In a statement, Lebanese Hezbollah categorically denied the allegations voiced by various Israeli media platforms about striking Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. On July 27, a rocket hit a football field in Majdal Shams, killing 12 people, including children.

Majdal Shams is an Arabic-speaking village with a population of about 25,000 Druze, a community of Muslim origin. The Golan Heights is a territory that belong to Syria. It captured by the Israeli occupying forces in 1967 and they have occupied the area ever since. However, this occupation and Israel’s actions are not recognised internationally.

The tragedy in the Golan has successfully displaced another, even larger tragedy from the information sphere. Shortly before the rocket attack on the Golan, the Israeli army fired at a school in the south of the Gaza Strip. More than thirty people were killed, most of them children and teenagers, and over a hundred people were injured. This has extended the sad list of Palestinian civilian victims of the IDF, and today the number of casualties is approaching 40,000. For some reason nobody really grieved for the Palestinian children, for they are ‘second-class people’.

Hezbollah’s announcement

Against the background of ongoing Hezbollah operations against Israeli military positions, the Lebanese resistance, in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, informed the UN that the incident in the Golan Heights occurred as a result of an Israeli rocket landing on a football field. This is not the first time that Israeli missile batteries and Iron Dome systems have missed their targets and hit Majdal Shams. For example, a similar incident occurred on July 10, when Tel Aviv also rushed to blame Hezbollah. Later assessments showed that a technical malfunction of Israeli air defence systems was behind the incident in Majdal Shams on July 10, despite the........

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