Hezbollah rocket barrage hammers homes in Israeli-annexed Golan Heights
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Terrorist organization Hezbollah rained rockets down on Israeli-annexed territory this week as cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel continue to deteriorate.
Over 50 rockets struck the Golan Heights during a Wednesday attack that injured one individual and destroyed two houses – part of a deadly exchange still ongoing between the Lebanese group and Israel.
“Hezbollah continues to indiscriminately fire projectiles toward Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Wednesday. “Just now, approx. 50 projectiles were fired and some fell in the town of Katzrin.”
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Israel claims the attack was a response to their successful strike on a weapons storage facility in Lebanon. That strike reportedly killed at least one person.
“There was no other target in the area other than a civilian neighborhood and kids on their summer vacation,” Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said following the attack. “Attacks against our civilians will not go unanswered.”
The Golan Heights has been occupied by civilian residents since Israel captured the patch of land from Syria at the end of the Six Days War.
Israel claimed the Golan Heights was necessary for national security and the territory was officially annexed in 1967. Except by the United States, the area is internationally recognized as Israeli-occupied Syrian territory.
Israel and Hezbollah have consistently exchanged missile strikes since October of last year, when the Hamas-led terrorist attack on the Jewish state initiated the ongoing conflict. Hamas and Israel have been unable to finalize a cease-fire deal, despite extensive assistance from United States diplomats.
Speaking to reporters from Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that a proposal put forward last week by the White House in coordination with leaders from Qatar and Egypt looked to “bridge the gaps” between the warring parties and has been “accepted” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“He supports it,” Blinken said. “It’s now incumbent on Hamas to do the same.”
“The parties – with the help of the mediators, the United States, Egypt and Qatar – have to come together and complete the process of reaching clear understandings about how they’ll implement the commitments that they’ve made under this agreement,” he added.
Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.
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