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Eleven people, including children, were killed in a rocket attack that hit a football field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Eleven people were killed and at least 34 others injured on Saturday when a rocket from Lebanon hit a town in the Golan Heights.
Israeli media said the rocket was fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah, while Hezbollah said it had "nothing to do with the incident". However, the Israeli Defence Forces insisted that its intelligence indicated that Hezbollah carried out the attack. Earlier, four Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese village of Kafr Kila.
In response, the IDF carried out airstrikes on seven Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory before dawn on Sunday.
Tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border have escalated since last year after Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Israel responded with heavy artillery fire into Lebanon. In Gaza, at least 30 Palestinians were killed and 100 others wounded in an Israeli bombing of a field hospital in Deir al-Balah.
The Israeli army said that based on intelligence, air force planes hit "terrorists" operating in a Hamas command centre inside the Hajjah school compound in central Gaza. Elsewhere, UNICEF draws attention to the plight of children in the West Bank. The organisation said a total of 143 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since October last year.
This figure represents an increase of nearly 250 % compared to the previous nine months, during which 41 Palestinian children were killed. UNICEF reports that two Israeli children were killed in conflict-related violence in the West Bank during the same period. In addition, more than 440 Palestinian children were injured by live ammunition.
These figures raise significant concerns about the excessive use of force against the most vulnerable.
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