Thousands of women and men dressed in black gathered today for the funeral of twelve children in Majdal Shams, killed a day earlier in a rocket attack on that city on the Golan Heights under Israeli occupation.
The funeral procession began at 10.00:XNUMX a.m. local time and small white coffins were carried through the streets of the city, and young people carried wreaths and photos of their slain relatives and friends, Israeli media reported.
Women in abayas wept while placing flowers on the coffins of those children, who were playing soccer at the time of the tragedy, reported a France Press journalist from Maždal Šams, home to around 11.000 inhabitants.
Israel's military said the rocket fired from Lebanon by pro-Iranian extremist Hezbollah was Iranian-made with a 50-kilogram warhead and exploded on a soccer field.
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Some residents were dressed in traditional Druze costume, women covered their mouths with white veils, and men had turbans wrapped in white.
Israeli ministers also came to the funeral, to whom mourners shouted that they "have no shame", because they appeared for the first time after nine months of Hezbollah attacks.
"You left us for nine months and now you are here. You have no shame. They went to play football and didn't come back," shouted one man in the procession at the Israeli ministers of economy and ecology. Opposition MPs also came to the funeral.
"Every night, every day, every minute we worried. It was like that for ten months," said the nurse, who introduced herself to France Press only as Lait.
She said exchanges of fire had been almost daily between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Israeli military since the October 7 war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Local authorities said children aged 10 to 16 were killed and 30 were taken to hospitals.
Hezbollah said it was attacking Israel in support of its ally Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza.
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