Ministers authorize Netanyahu, Gallant to order retaliation for deadly Golan strike --Hezbollah members said to abandon posts as Lebanon and wider region gird for expected response following rocket strike on Majdal Shams soccer field that killed 12 youths | 29 July 2024 | Israeli ministers authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense chief Sunday to decide on the "manner and timing" of a response to a rocket strike in the Golan Heights that killed 12 children and teens, and which Israel and the United States blamed on Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. Israel has vowed retaliation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Israeli jets hit targets in southern Lebanon during the day on Sunday and reportedly shelled sites there just after midnight Monday, as Lebanon braced for Israel's expected reprisal and diplomats scrambled to keep the conflict from snowballing.