Northern Israelis Fear Their Country, Under American Pressure, Will Fail To Hit Back at Hezbollah Sufficiently Hard

‘These children are our children,’ Prime Minister Netanyahu says while visiting Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, where at least 12 children aged 12 to 16 were killed Saturday when an Iranian-made Falaq-1 missile hit a soccer field.

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Members of the Druze minority attend a memorial ceremony July 29, 2024, for the children and teenagers killed in a rocket strike at a soccer field over the weekend at the village of Majdal Shams, Golan Heights. AP/Leo Correa

As Lebanon braces for Israeli retaliation over the murder of at least 12 children on the Golan Heights, some northern Israelis are worried that, due to American pressure, the response might fail to end the Iran-directed assault on the Jewish state. 

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