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Golan Heights attack: The claims and counterclaims on Majdal Shams strike

On Saturday, an explosive slammed into a football pitch in the Golan Heights' Majdal Shams, killing 12 children.

The apparent attack ratcheted up tensions between Israel, which occupies the Golan, and Lebanon's Hezbollah, which began clashing with the Israeli military along the Lebanese border in October in solidarity with Hamas and the Palestinians under attack in Gaza.

Though the slain children were not Israeli citizens - Druze that live in the occupied Syrian territory tend not to take Israeli citizenship - Israel has blamed Hezbollah and insisted that it will retaliate in Lebanon.

Hezbollah denies it was responsible, saying the children were killed instead by a misfired Israeli Iron Dome air-defence missile.

Middle East Eye breaks down the claims and counter-claims on the incident in Majdal Shams.

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Families whose children were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket launched across Lebanon's border with Israel react before the funeral in Majdal Shams on 28  July (Reuters/Ammar Awad).