Hezbollah Rockets Hit Soccer Field in Israel

 The powers of earth who want Israel destroyed, so the prophetic promises made to Israel can also be destroyed, just keep backing Israel into a corner.  Netanyahu will return to Israel and the war council will meet.  We are guessing that Hezbollah/Lebanon will be the focus of Israel’s wrath and war will result.  Meanwhile this retaliation by Israel will further stoke the world’s hatred of Jews and Israel.  As Jew-hatred increases around the world, look for Jews to continue to leave their host nations and return to the Promised Land.

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The Biden administration is highly concerned that a rocket attack from Lebanon that hit a soccer field in the Golan Heights and killed 12 children and teenagers could lead to an all out war between Israel and Hezbollah, U.S. officials tell Axios.

The big picture: The administration for months has worried that both Israel and Hezbollah are miscalculating as they escalate their rhetoric and fighting on the ground while thinking they can avoid an all-out war.

• U.S. officials are also concerned that without a ceasefire in Gaza, a war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group is becoming more likely, which would exacerbate the regional crisis and draw the U.S. deeper into the conflict. 
• "What happened today could be the trigger we have been worried about and tried to avoid for 10 months," a U.S. official told Axios.

Driving the news: The IDF said twelve people were killed and more than 30 were wounded when a rocket exploded in a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.

• IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Hezbollah was responsible for the attack. 
• Hezbollah denied it fired the rocket and said it had no connection to the incident.

Hagari called it the "most serious targeting" of Israeli civilians since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

• An IDF official told reporters in a briefing that Hezbollah fired a rocket with an unusually large warhead in retaliation for an Israeli strike earlier on Saturday that killed four members of the Lebanese militant group.
• Hagari said it was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket with a 100-pound warhead and that only Hezbollah holds such rockets in Lebanon. A U.S. official said the U.S. assessment is that the rocket was fired by Hezbollah.
• Hezbollah officials told the UN the incident was the result of an Israeli anti-rocket interceptor hitting the soccer field, a U.S. official said. The IDF denied that was what happened.
• Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz told Axios "the Hezbollah attack crossed all red lines and the response will be accordingly."

The latest: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, and said Hezbollah will pay a heavy price for the attack, the Prime Minister's office said.

• The Israeli security cabinet will convene on Sunday to discuss the response to the attack. 
• Israeli law requires the security cabinet to approve military operations that could lead to war.

Acting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikatti condemned "all acts of violence and aggression against all civilians" and called for an immediate halt to violence. 

• "Targeting civilians is a flagrant violation of international law," he said

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/27/golan-heights-attack-israel-hezbollah-war