The Lebanese Hezbollah movement told the United Nations that the alleged “attack” on Israel-held Golan Heights was the result of an Iron Dome interceptor missile malfunction, Axios reported on Sunday. According to the media, the interceptor was fired to intercept the group’s rockets in northern Golan and ultimately landed on a soccer field. A US official also mentioned that this alleged attack could potentially escalate into a full-scale conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, considering the ongoing stalemate in the Gaza ceasefire.
Netanyahu: Hezbollah to pay ‘heavy price’ for attack
Israeli fighter jets struck at least four additional towns and villages in southern Lebanon as a response to Hezbollah’s alleged shelling of the Golan Heights, which killed 12 people. According to local media, Israeli warplanes “carried out air strikes on the cities of Beeqa, Majd al-Shams and Kafra in southern Lebanon,” as well as the Chebaa area, from where the IDF said earlier that the fatal rocket was launched into Majdal Shams. Israeli airstrikes targeted Lebanon’s southern towns of Burj al-Shemali, Khiam, Abbasyeh, Kferkela, Tayr Harfa and the port city of Tyre on Sunday, according to Lebanese media.