Israel: Rocket that hit Druze village had 53kg of explosives

DPA:   A rocket that killed 12 young people and children on the Golan Heights was equipped with a warhead weighing more than 50 kilograms, according to the Israeli army.

The Israeli chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, visited the site of the impact in the Druze village of Majdal Shams late on Saturday.

"We examined the remains of the rocket here on the wall of the soccer field. We know to say that it is a Falaq rocket with a 53kg warhead," he said.

He asserted that it was "a Hezbollah rocket."

"We give strength to the Druze community, our brave, full partner, with the rest of the citizens of Israel," he said.

Majdal Shams is mainly inhabited by Druze, an Arabic-speaking religious community.

Women mourn during the funeral of their relatives at the Druze town of Majdal Shams. Twelve children and young people were killed when a rocket fired by the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon hit a football field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Ilia Yefimovich/dpa