Israel blames Hezbollah for strike it says killed 12, including children, in Golan Heights
ABCIsraeli authorities say 12 people, including children, have been killed by a rocket strike on a soccer pitch in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. "Hezbollah will pay a heavy price, the kind it has thus far not paid," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a phone call with the leader of the Druze community in Israel, according to a statement from his office. Hezbollah said in a statement that its militants firing Katyusha rockets at an Israeli army post in the Golan Heights was in response to Israeli air strikes on villages in south Lebanon. The United States, which has been leading diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalating the conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border, condemned it as a horrific attack and said US support for Israel's security was "iron-clad and unwavering against all Iranian-backed terrorist groups, including Lebanese Hezbollah". " Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Israel was approaching an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon, Axios reported.