Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened a “harsh” response after blaming the Lebanese-based Hezbollah movement for Saturday’s rocket attack that killed 12 Druze children and teenagers at a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Netanyahu’s threat came as he visited the site of the explosion in the town of Majdal Shams in a part of Syria occupied by Israel since 1967. Hezbollah has denied involvement in the attack. As Netanyahu spoke, a crowd of Druze protesters gathered chanting “Bibi is a murderer!” and holding up signs calling the Israeli leader a war criminal.

Fahed Safad: “He is an unwelcome person in our place. He is a liar and corrupt. He is coming to use the bodies of our children to be on TV. We will not allow this to happen.”