All evidence points to Hezbollah being responsible for the deadly attack in Majdal Shams, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday, expressing support for Israel’s right to self-defense.
“Every indication is that indeed the rocket was from Hezbollah. We stand by Israel’s right to defend its citizens from terror attacks,” the American diplomat said in Japan.
Earlier on Sunday, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that forensic evidence showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq 1, with a 117-pound warhead, which in Lebanon is used exclusively by Hezbollah.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called Saturday’s deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on the Golan Heights a “terrible tragedy,” pledging that Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy “will pay the price.”
The minister spoke on Sunday morning while touring the scene of the strike in the Druze town. Twelve children were killed and more than 40 people wounded in the single deadliest Hezbollah attack since the Lebanese terrorist army joined the war in support of Hamas on Oct. 8, firing drones, missiles and rockets across the border on a near daily basis.
