Israel Vows Retaliation on Hezbollah After Rocket Attack Kills 12 on Soccer Field

Israeli, US officials blame Hezbollah, which has denied responsibility for the strike.

Israeli officials respond after rockets launched across Lebanon's border with Israel killed a dozen people at a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights, Israel, on July 27, 2024. Gil Eliyahu/Reuters

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a response from Israel to a rocket attack that left 12 people, including children, dead at a soccer field in the Golan Heights and said that his government will exact a “heavy price” from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group.

Mr. Netanyahu’s office on July 27 quoted him as saying that “Israel will not overlook this murderous attack” and “Hezbollah will pay a heavy price.”