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

  • Foni@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

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

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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    3 months ago

    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
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      3 months ago

      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
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        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.

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            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.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Terrible. They have been raining down rockets in Israel since Oct. 8 and no one talks about it. There are 200,000 internally displaced Israelis and sometimes it feels like no one cares.

    • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Both the escalation on the southern Lebanon border and the resulting displacement have received a lot of media coverage. Hezbollah has kept saying that this is to keep IDF from being all focused on Gaza and that they would stop if a ceasefire is reached. Until about three month ago both Israel and Hezbollah have been trying to keep the level of escalation low.

      This has changes as Israel attacked Beirut and threatened to turn it into “another Gaza” and boasting about how they could destroy all of Lebanon. Netanyahus government has aimed to escalate the war there, to draw in the US and other western allies.

      Now whether we will see the full escalation now remains to be seen. Hezbollah is a whole different league compared to Hamas in terms of weapons and fighters.

      • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        How is Hezbollah attacking Israel ‘to keep them busy’ supposed to keep things from escalating?

        • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          The level of engagement remained on the low and the “unwritten rules of engagement” like keeping things within a few kilometers of the border used to be upheld by both IDF and Hezbollah

          • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            So as long as Hezbollah is only shelling those 100.000 people living closest to the border, Israel should consider it a friendly ping-pong match?

            • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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              I fail to see your point. There is more displaced Lebanese and much more Lebanese killed by Israel since Oct. 7. Considering displacement overall, adding in the 2 million displaced in Gaza, the attempt to put the blame on Hezbollah fails completely.

              On September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland. On September 3, France, the UK and other UK affiliated states declared war on Germany. I hope it is obvious, that this does not put the blame of escalation on France and the UK.

              • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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                3 months ago

                So if you start shitting in my front yard, and in response I start shitting in yours, you’re saying the blame falls on me because after a few days you have more shit in your yard?

                • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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                  3 months ago

                  You are conviently forgetting the whole aspect that it isnt your yard, but you stole it by murdering and driving out the family that used to live there. Now some of that family is in my house and other parts of the family are in the house next over, that you are currently setting on fire.

                  So yeah, that is you escalating shit in that analogy.

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s terrible but have you thought that the policies of your own state could be the root cause of it?