From the Liveblog of
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Herzog: World ‘cannot sit in silence’ when Hezbollah kills children playing soccer
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Calling the deadly Hezbollah attack on the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams “heartbreaking,” President Isaac Herzog says “the world cannot continue to sit in silence in the face of [Hassan] Nasrallah’s terror attacks, which come at the behest of the empire of evil in Iran.”
Promising that “the State of Israel will firmly defend its citizens and its sovereignty,” the president says that his “prayers are with the victims and for the recovery of the wounded,” adding that “there are no words that can comfort the families of the young victims who lost their lives through no fault of their own.”
“Hezbollah, armed and funded by Iran, does not distinguish between child or adult, soldier or civilian, Jew or Muslim, Druze or Christian. Hezbollah terrorists brutally attacked and murdered children today, whose only crime was going out to play soccer. They did not return,” he says.
