Children and teens among 12 dead in Golan Heights attack that Israel blames on Hezbollah, raising fears of major escalation | CNN
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At least 12 people, including children, were killed when multiple rockets hit a village in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights Saturday, Israeli officials said, in an attack that has raised fears of a major escalation in the long-running conflict.

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

  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
    3510·
    4 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.eeEnglish
      114·
      4 months ago

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

      • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
        83·
        4 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.eeEnglish
          74·
          4 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.eeEnglish
            102·
            4 months ago

            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.eeEnglish
              59·
              4 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.eeEnglish
                73·
                4 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.

                • nonailsleft@lemm.eeEnglish
                  55·
                  4 months ago

                  I see you’ve moved on from “totally not escalating friendly shelling across the border” to “simplified one-sided recording of complicated history so actually everything they do is totally ok”

                  If that’s your real argument, why even bother to start with the other?

                  • Tryptaminev@lemm.eeEnglish
                    52·
                    4 months ago

                    Hezbollah started limited attacks after Israel starting bombing Gaza. That was the level of engagement for many months. The understanding to keep it at that level changed with Israel escalating into Syria and Lebanon more and more, as well as the total annihilation they bring on Gaza.

                    You don’t need to look at all of the “conflict”. However the fundamentals are not complicated. Israel is a settler colonial state. It is found on and will be completed by genocide and ethnic cleansing of the population it is stealing the land from. This is what happened in what is today the US. This is what France tried in Algeria. And you find this again and again throughout human history.

                    You can engage in all sorts of debates as to who has shot first at what point, but this fundamental structure of the situation does not change.

                    Hezbollah made it clear they don’t want an escalation and the way to end the fighting and the border is by Israel ending the genocide in Gaza. The same goes for the regime in Iran, which had to respond to Israels assault on the embassy, but they did so in a matter to show force, without causing relevant damage. The one escalating is Netanyahu, who hopes to draw all of the west into a total war in the middle east, because the support for his genocide is dwindling.

                    It is the mindset of a schoolyard bully, that always picks fights, to then call on his bigger brother to defend him. It would be funny, if it wouldnt be a genocidal maniac, that is set to put the lives of hundreds of millions of people at risk.