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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Mat Nashed

After Golan Heights attack, will the Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalate?

Members of the Druze community look at the damage to a football pitch after a projectile killed 12 people in Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [Menahem Kahana/AFP]

Israel is gearing up to launch a major attack on Lebanon after a deadly rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, but it is unlikely to want to trigger an all-out war with Hezbollah, analysts say.

Israel blames the Lebanese armed group for firing a projectile on Saturday that hit a football pitch and killed 12 children and young people in the Druze town of Majdal Shams.

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