TIMES OF ISRAEL
Anger and grief mix as Majdal Shams buries 10 children killed in rocket strike
Canaa Lidor
July 28, 2024

Seething anger and profound grief were on display at this Druze town on the Golan Heights, where thousands gathered for the funerals of 10 of the 12 children who are believed to have been killed when a rocket from Lebanon hit a soccer field. An 11th victim was buried in the nearby town of Ein Keinya, while a 12th, a teenage boy, is missing and is presumed to have died in the attack. Black flags flew on the lampposts of Majdal Shams and the surrounding Druze villages – Buq’ata and Masa’ada – and all the local businesses were shuttered on Sunday during the funerals. Thousands of locals and visitors from beyond the Golan, most wearing black, filled the town center as the victims’ white coffins were being prepared to be taken to the cemetery overlooking the center…“Lebanon should burn for this,” shouted Samir Halabi, a 52-year-old radio host from Majdal Shams. READ MORE

JNS IDF on deadly Golan attack: Terrain, trajectory to blame for lack of interception
The Hezbollah missile that killed 12 and wounded more than 30 in the northern Golan Heights on Saturday was not intercepted due to the local terrain and the missile’s low-altitude trajectory, according to the Israeli military’s initial investigation into the incident. The probe also found that contrary to claims in the Israeli media, air-raid sirens sounded for 20 seconds prior to the impact and the alert system did not malfunction.