Hezbollah Denies Responsibility For Suspicious Attack On Majdal Shams

After Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on the headquarters of the Hermon Brigade in the Ma’aleh Golani barracks and the Za’oura area in the northern occupied Golan, the Zionist regime’s media outlets reported that a rocket hit the soccer field of the town of Majdal Shams.

As a result of the explosion, 11 people have been killed and 34 injured so far. Some media outlets have also reported that the death toll has risen to 14, which cannot be confirmed at this time.

Senior Israeli officials told the regime’s media outlets that the Lebanese resistance movement had crossed red lines with the attack and that Lebanon would soon receive a response.

In contrast to this scenario, some media outlets have reported on the mistaken performance of the Israeli regime army’s defense systems in confronting Hezbollah’s rocket attack on the Ma’aleh Golani barracks and the fall of one of the defensive missiles on the Majdal Shams soccer field, which needs further investigation. Therefore, in order to investigate the dimensions and truth of this attack, we must wait for more evidence and citations.

In a statement, Lebanese Hezbollah movement officially denied responsibility for the attack, writing, “The Lebanese Islamic Resistance categorically denies the allegations published by some of the enemy’s media outlets and various tribunes regarding the targeting of Majdal Shams, and categorically rejects the Islamic Resistance’s connection to this incident.”

The Zionist website Walla news also reported that the residents of Majdal Shams were not warned before the attack, and wrote that they had not been ordered to go to the shelters. In response to the incident, the Israel Hayom newspaper’s website reported that initial investigations indicated that the air defense systems had difficulty intercepting the Majdal Shams missiles.

Finance Minister and hardline Zionist politician Bezalel Smotrich called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return immediately. He claimed that the time has come to take action and that all of Lebanon must pay the price. Smotrich also called for the assassination of Secretary General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in response to the Majdal Shams attack.

The Zionist regime’s Minister of Internal Security Itamar Ben-Gvir said: “Since October 7, I have said that we are in a state of war in the north and that the enemy must be defeated, and for 10 months the decision-making bodies have been refraining from admitting that we are in a battle with Hezbollah. Today, no one, in any assembly, including the Minister of War, who only sought to contain Hezbollah, can avoid the bloody reality. ‘We are at war.’ I will immediately call the prime minister to a cabinet meeting with an encrypted phone to make a decision that I have been calling for a long time. Now the war is in the north!”

At a press conference, IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari called the explosion the most serious since the Oct. 7 attack, saying that the minister of war, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces and the head of the Mossad were assessing the situation of Majdal Shams. Hagari went on to blame Hezbollah for the killing of innocent children and said the army would respond to the attack in accordance with the declared framework.

In another statement, Hagari claimed that the rocket that hit the Majdal Shams football field was Iran-made and carried a 50-kilogram explosive warhead. He also blamed a Hezbollah field commander named Ali Muhammad Yahya for firing the rocket at Majdal Shams.

In another message, the Israeli regime’s army claimed that an analysis of the army’s operational systems showed that the rocket was fired at Majdal Shams, from an area north of the village of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli regime’s Channel 13 TV also reported that the United States has asked Israel not to respond to the Majdal Shams attack because of fears of war in Lebanon. Former US President Donald Trump took a stance that indicated his propaganda campaign in an election contest with the Democratic administration, calling the missile attack on the Golan Heights horrific and claimed that it would not have happened if he had been president. Trump went on to say: We cannot allow these attacks to continue.

According to the videos and pictures available from the moment the rocket hit the soccer field of the town of Majdal Shams, the incident occurred at the same time as Hezbollah carried out rocket attacks on the Ma’aleh Golani barracks in the northern occupied Golan, but the cause and type of the missile are not related to Hezbollah, and it is most likely that one of the Israeli army’s Iron Dome defensive missiles had a wrong function and fell down towards the city.

Initial citations of low volumes of smoke, surface destruction of the ground, and the trajectory of other Israeli defense missiles also indicate the same issue. The Israeli regime and its army are taking advantage of this issue to justify their attacks on southern Lebanon and to pave the way for further actions in eastern and northern Lebanon. The expansion of the war on the northern front of occupied Palestine will benefit the Netanyahu cabinet in the short term, but in the long run, it will lead to the collapse of the regime. Netanyahu is waiting for the outcome of the US presidential election and his preferred choice in order to provoke more warmongering policies in the region.