Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the soccer field in Majdal Shams where a rocket killed 12 children on Saturday and pledged a ‘harsh response.’
‘Hezbollah, with Iranian backing, launched an Iranian rocket here, which took the lives of 12 pure souls,’ says Netanyahu at the site. ‘Twelve boys and girls who played soccer here and unfortunately could not get to the shelter. Our hearts are torn apart by the severe tragedy. We embrace the families who are going through indescribable suffering.’
‘These children are our children, they are all the children of all of us, ‘ he says, according to his office. ‘Israel will not and cannot let this simply pass on by. Our response will come, and it will be harsh.’
Netanyahu laid a wreath at the site as well.
Netanyahu said that Jews and Druze are brothers: ‘We have a covenant of life, but unfortunately it is also a covenant of moments of bereavement and grief. We embrace you.’
He urged the Druze community not to lose hope, and pledges that Israel will stand by their side, ‘today, tomorrow and forever!’
The visit was under censorship until he left the town.
Netanyahu, accompanied by Shin Bet director Ronen Bar, IDF Chief of Staff Tzachi Braverman, PMO director General Yossi Shelly, military secretary Maj. Gen. Roman Goffman, Israeli Druze spiritual leader Muafek Tarif, and the heads of the Majdal Shams and Ein Qiniya local councils, also visited with grieving family members.
A crowd of locals clad in black — about ten rows deep — pushed up against barriers as Netanyahu toured the site, yelling at him to leave the town.
Others held up signs calling Netanyahu a war criminal, while a larger group clapped their hands and chanted, ‘Out! Out!’
Wow suddenly the media knows how to report on children dying…
ed note–Yes, noticed the same thing.
20,000 kids are murdered by the Jews in Gaza and barely a burp from the media, but then 12 (non-Jewish) kids are killed and is blamed on AY-RAB TERRORISTS!!! and now it becomes the talk of the town.
The only thing worse than the hypocrisy itself is the source of the Jews knowing they can get way with it, that source of course being the utter and incurable stupidity of the American people.