Iran Israel's Foreign Ministry: Last chance for diplomacy

Following the deadly rocket attack on the Golan Heights, the spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry has announced a strike against the Lebanese Hezbollah militia. Spokesman Oren Marmorstein called Hezbollah "Iran's front post in Lebanon". The militia was responsible for "a massacre in Majd al-Sham, the murder of innocent children and teenagers while they were playing football".

On Saturday, at least twelve people between the ages of 10 and 20 were killed in a rocket attack in the Druze village of Majd al-Shams on the Golan Heights, most of them children and teenagers. According to Israeli reports, an Iranian-made rocket hit a busy soccer field there.

Marmorstein rejected Hezbollah's claim that it was not behind the attack. "The rocket that killed our boys and girls was an Iranian rocket, and Hezbollah is the only terrorist organization that has it in its arsenal."

Hezbollah had "crossed all red lines" with the attack. It was not an army fighting another army, "but a terrorist organization deliberately firing on civilians". However, according to experts, it is also conceivable that the missile missed its actual military target.

Marmorstein continued: "Israel will exercise its right and duty of self-defense and respond to the massacre." He called on the international community to "hold Iran and its terrorist offshoots, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, fully responsible".

The Israeli spokesman also said that there was only one way to prevent an all-out war, "which would also be devastating for Lebanon". Hezbollah must be forced to withdraw beyond the Litani River in accordance with a UN resolution. This is 30 kilometers from the border between Israel and Lebanon. "Now is the very last minute to do this diplomatically."