IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the toll of the Hezbollah rocket attack in Majdal Shams has risen to 11, Paralel.Az reports citing Times of Israel.

He says the rocket fire that led to the deaths of 11 children and youths in the northern Golan Heights town is the most serious attack on civilians since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.

“Hezbollah is behind this disaster and is responsible for its consequences. We embrace the families of the dead and wounded, and the entire Druze community, citizens of the State of Israel,” Hagari adds in a post on X.

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Nine people were killed in a rocket attack on a football ground in the Golan Heights on Saturday, Israeli Channel 13 reported, amid an escalation of fire between Israel and armed groups in Lebanon, Paralel.Az reports.

The Israeli emergency service said earlier that nine people were critically wounded by a rocket fired from Lebanon that hit a village football pitch in the Druze village of Majdal Shams. A medic described great destruction and fire at the scene.

The attack on the soccer pitch followed an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed four fighters on Saturday. Two security sources in Lebanon said the four fighters killed in the Israeli strike on Kfarkila in southern Lebanon were members of different armed groups, with at least one of them belonging to Hezbollah.