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From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they've backpedaled on it.

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UPDATE: 10 dead, 6 in critical, 3 moderate, 4 light, and several dozen unadmitted injured people

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[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

Uh-oh, time to kill 15,000 more civilians

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh you try to exterminate an entire ethnic group and they refuse to die peacefully, what ignominy

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, kids. It looks like you were born in the wrong country to deserve any sympathy or basic human decency.

What a monster.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Do you say the same thing when bombs fall on Palestinian hospitals?? I'm not happy about this, but I'm not happy about killing another 50,000 innocent people to avenge them.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

That's a straw man though. They didn't say anything about the children. There's children all over in the region being killed for no good reason. But people definitely don't have a reason to have sympathy for the state of Israel on this as a whole.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago

They were born in a place where they can go to bunkers and remain safe until their military can mow down the other place fully including the children who unfortunately don't have the biggest military backing them up.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Reports say hezbollah has never claimed this attack, when did they claim it? Normally when hezbollah strikes somewhere they always take credit.

It was also in an area with a mostly druze arab population which does not serve in the idf. Hezbollah has no reason to strike there.

This has many indications of a false flag.

[–] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Druze serve in the IDF.

Edit: Although it's true that Druze in the Golan are different than the rest of the Druze in Israel, in that some of them don't serve.

Either way: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nine-people-killed-rocket-hits-football-pitch-israeli-occupied-golan-israel-2024-07-27/

Speaking with reporters at Majdal Shams, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

Hezbollah had earlier announced firing a Falaq-1 missile on Saturday, saying it had targeted an Israeli military headquarters.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

Daniel Hagari is the man that has lied about everything in Gaza for months. If it was an Iranian missile I expect to see proof.

[–] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.

This was generally true before the Syrian civil war. Things have changed since.
Haaretz article about it

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Haaretz articles are hit or mis. This article is a massive miss. 4 paragraphs in and I'm still wading through the Israeli propaganda before clicking the red cross button.

[–] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

More likely it was a rocket that failed / went off course.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

All kids lives matter.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

THIS attack JUSTIFIES killing 100000 MORE Children!