The Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein announced today, in a post on X, that the Druze children were hit yesterday by a rocket of Iranian origin. The IDF had said that the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 with a warhead of over 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives. Marmorstein added: “Hezbollah is the only terror organization which has those in its arsenal … the only way that the world can prevent a full-scale war which would be devastating also to Lebanon” is to force Hezbollah to implement the 2006 Security Council Resolution 1701, which created a buffer zone inside Lebanon. (Only Lebanon’s military and UN forces are allowed to be south of the Litani River, about 18 miles north of the border between Israel and Lebanon.) Marmorstein continued: “Now is the very last minute to do so diplomatically.” He urged the global community to impose sanctions on Iran and to designate both the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, in a ministry statement, said he “expected the Majdal Shams strike was carried out by other organizations or was an Israeli mistake or a mistake by Hezbollah.” He insisted that Hezbollah targets “only military” positions, ruling out the possibility of them intentionally attacking the Druze civilians. He also “called for the complete and comprehensive application” of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. He affirmed that Hezbollah is ready to withdraw north of the Litani River if Israel halts its “violations.”
