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Netanyahu pledges 'severe' response to Golan Heights attack

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A person mourns as he embraces the picture of his loved one killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket Israel says was fired from Lebanon, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, July 29, 2024. [Reuters]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Monday to carry out a strong response to a rocket strike that killed 12 children in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.

Netanyahu visited the attack site Monday, where he reiterated Israel's accusation that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group was responsible. Hezbollah, which has traded fire with Israeli forces across the border since the launch of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has denied responsibility.

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