Jerusalem: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Western powers, including the US, Britain France and Germany condemned the attack on Golan Heights and appealed for calm, as Iran warned Israel any new military “adventures” in Lebanon could lead to “unforeseen consequences”.
Israel’s army called it “the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians” which since October 2023 and blamed Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement for firing the rocket, that killed 12 children and teens in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The incident has added to concerns that months of cross-border hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group could spiral into a broader, more destructive war.
EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned the “bloodbath” and said there should be “an independent international investigation into this unacceptable incident.”
The UN urged “maximum restraint”, warning that intensifying exchanges of fire “could ignite a wider conflagration that would engulf the entire region in a catastrophe beyond belief”.
Britain condemned the attack, as did Germany, whose foreign ministry urged “cool heads”.
Meanwhile, two Israeli officials said it wanted to hurt Hezbollah but not drag the Middle East into all-out war. Two other Israeli officials said Israel was preparing for the possibility of a few days of fighting following Saturday's rocket strike at a sports field in a Druze village.
On the other hand, in a statement on X, Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Sunday called for an “international investigation or a meeting of the tripartite committee held through UNIFIL to know the truth” about who was responsible for the attack and “called for the complete and comprehensive application” of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
