Northern council head says at least 5 victims from same family; hospitals say several children still in serious condition; Foreign Ministry: Hezbollah ‘crossed all lines’

Eleven of the 12 children killed in Saturday’s deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams were named by Arabic and Hebrew media on Sunday morning, as northern community representatives railed against the government for what they described as a lackluster response to daily missile fire.

The victims were named as Alma Ayman Fakher Eldin, 11 Milad Muadad Alsha’ar, 10; Vinees Adham Alsafadi, 11; Iseel Nasha’at Ayoub, 12; Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh, 12; Johnny Wadeea Ibrahim, 13; Ameer Rabeea Abu Saleh, 16; Naji Taher Alhalabi, 11; Fajer Laith Abu Saleh, 16; Hazem Akram Abu Saleh, 15; and Nathem Fakher Saeb, 16.

The twelfth victim was named Sunday evening as 11-year-old Gevara Ebraheem.

The twelve children and teens were killed when a rocket hit a soccer field in the northern Druze town Saturday afternoon. The IDF has said that the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 with a warhead of over 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives.

Iran-backed Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the deadly attack, but the IDF and US intelligence have stated that the terror group fired the deadly projectile. The funerals of most of the children killed were set to begin at 11 a.m. in Majdal Shams.

Benny Ben-Muvhar, head of the Mevo’ot Hermon Regional Council, told Channel 12 news that four or five of the children killed were members of a single family.

“Ten months we are waiting for the security cabinet to tell us where to turn. We are sitting with army officials and saying: ‘We are ready, we are strong, we are waiting for instructions from the security cabinet.’ And what happens in the meantime? A mother and son are killed in Kfar Yuval, people killed in the communities,” he said. He called the latest attack a “disaster” and demanded a change in the military’s responses.

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