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# Escalation of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/escalation-of-the-day/
- Published: 2024-07-28T18:30:09.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-28T18:30:08.000Z
- Description: At least 11 people were killed and 37 others injured in a missile attack, the Israeli authorities claimed. It added that 17 of the injured are in serious condition.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Israel, World Politics

> A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has killed 12 people including children, [Israeli](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/israel/?ref=goodoil.news)[ ](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/israel/?ref=goodoil.news)authorities say, blaming [Hezbollah](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/what-is-hezbollah-the-iranian-backed-group-that-could-go-to-all-out-war-against-israel/OQ6L7DOKLVHHZKYSO6ITRND4GM/?ref=goodoil.news) militants and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the [Iran](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/iran/?ref=goodoil.news)\-backed [Lebanese](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/lebanon/?ref=goodoil.news) group.  
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> Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike, the deadliest in Israel or Israeli-annexed territory since the start of the [conflict in Gaza](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/israel-conflict/?ref=goodoil.news) last October.  
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> The rocket struck a football pitch in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights \[...\]  
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> “Hezbollah will pay a heavy price, the kind it has thus far not paid,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a phone call with the leader of the Druze community in Israel, according to a statement from his office.  
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> Hezbollah had earlier announced several rocket attacks targeting Israeli military positions. \[...\]  
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> The Israeli ambulance service said 13 more people were wounded by the rocket that hit the football pitch which was filled at the time with children and teenagers. \[...\]  
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> The Israeli military said the rocket launch was carried out from an area located north of the village of Chebaa in southern Lebanon.  
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> 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.

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