On Sunday, thousands of members of the Druze community in the occupied Golan Heights gathered for funerals of 12 children and teenagers killed in a rocket strike on a soccer field Saturday. Israel blamed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for the strike, but Hezbollah denied the claim. Axios reports Hezbollah officials have told the United Nations that the deaths were caused by an Israeli anti-rocket interceptor projectile. The deaths occurred in the town of Majdal Shams in a part of Syria which has been under Israeli occupation since 1967. Diplomats fear the strike could spark a broader regional war.

On Sunday, Israel’s Security Cabinet authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to decide on the “manner and timing” of a military response. Netanyahu responded to the deaths in the Golan Heights by blocking the evacuation of 150 sick children in Gaza who were scheduled to receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates.