Israel’s military bombed villages and towns in south and east Lebanon after accusing Hezbollah of firing a rocket that killed 12 young people from the Druze community in the town of Majdal Shams in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to an Al-Jazeera report.
Israel vowed to inflict a heavy price on the Iran-backed Lebanese group following the attack on the football ground, reports Reuters.
The attack sharply escalated tensions in the hostilities which have been fought in parallel to the Gaza war and has raised fears of a full-blown conflict between the heavily armed adversaries.
The rocket struck a football pitch in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, territory captured from Syria by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in a move not recognised by most countries.
