July 28, 2024 – 11:57 PM
Several thousand people attended the funeral of the victims of the missile attack on the Golan Heights on July 28, 2024 – Photo: Mustafa Al-Kharouf/Anadolu Agency/AFP
Israel's security cabinet on Sunday authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to decide on “the manner and timing” of a response to Saturday's rocket attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Reuters reports.
Both Israel and the United States have blamed Hezbollah for Saturday’s attack, but the militant group says it had nothing to do with it. Israel had already promised retaliation before the meeting: Israeli aircraft attacked targets in southern Lebanon during the day on Sunday, but a stronger response was expected after Netanyahu’s security cabinet meeting.
The attack targeted a Druze-majority town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Twelve people were killed in the rocket attack, most of them children and young people, and Israeli authorities reported 37 others injured. Following news of the rocket attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a trip to the United States and returned home, while the Lebanese government turned to the United States in an attempt to warn Israel and Hezbollah to exercise restraint.
