An explosion on a football pitch in a Druze village in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the Lebanese border killed 12 people on July 27, all of them children. This region has been the theatre of military conflict between Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a close ally of Hamas and Iran, and Israel since October 2023. While Hezbollah categorically denies any responsibility, our investigations indicate that the deadly explosion could have been caused by a “Falaq-1”, an Iranian-made rocket used by Hezbollah.
The images of the explosion are gruesome: several children were killed, some of them with severed limbs. According to multiple amateur videos, including footage from “ Magen David Adom”, the Israeli “Red Crescent”, the explosion occurred during a football match in Majdal Shams on July 27.
