A close-up new video has emerged showing the moment a rocket struck a football pitch in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday killing 12 youngsters.
Remember: This is the strike that prompted Israel to retaliate and strike Beirut. The state vowed earlier this week that Hezbollah would “pay the price” for the attack.
Israel and the United States have said the rocket was fired by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Hezbollah denied responsibility for the strike but did say it had fired at Israeli military targets in the area.
The first few seconds of the video show children playing on swings in a small park next to the football pitch.
As a girl reaches down to the phone recording the images to pick it up off the floor, an air raid siren starts wailing.
The children appear anxious but do not run to take shelter.
Fifteen seconds after the siren begins, the sound of the incoming rocket can be heard, quickly becoming deafening, before it smashes into the ground just meters away from the camera.
For a split second, the camera captures a huge fireball triggered by the blast.
Children are heard screaming. The girl holding the phone appears to fall to the ground before quickly picking herself up and running to take shelter behind a wall, along with other children.
“Mum! Mum!” she screams as she runs to safety, as an alarm, perhaps set off by the blast, can be heard.
The video ends about 30 seconds after the rocket struck.
