Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice

A town's anguish over children killed in a soccer field

(JNS) - MAJDAL SHAMS, Israel - The pictures of 12 smiling children line the shattered gate of a soccer field, above wreaths of flowers. The blackened remains of bicycles lie next to the bomb shelter the boys and girls were rushing to after a siren went off during their weekend game in this windswept Druze village in the Golan Heights.

"Donated with love for the safety of the People of Israel," reads a sign on the shelter, pockmarked by the shrapnel from the Iranian-made Hezbollah rocket that struck here on Saturday evening. With a warhead containing over 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives...

 

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