以色列，沙姆斯——以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在视察以色列占领的戈兰高地发生的火箭弹袭击事件时发誓要进行报复。那次袭击造成12名德鲁兹少数民族的年轻成员死亡。
“我们会做出回应，而且会很艰难，”他在戈兰高地的马吉达勒沙姆斯镇(Majdal Shams)会见文职和军方官员时说。以色列官员将此次事件归咎于邻国黎巴嫩强大的武装组织真主党(Hezbollah)发射的火箭弹，人们越来越担心，这次事件会把该地区推向一场更大范围的战争。真主党否认是袭击的幕后黑手。
11岁的格瓦拉·易卜拉欣(Guevara Ibrahim)的尸体被抬过街道，旁边是男孩微笑的照片，数千名哀悼者走上街头，向足球场上罢工的第12名受害者表示敬意。一些人穿着传统服装，全身黑色，戴着白色和红色的头巾或白色的头巾。
12把盖着黑布的椅子空着坐在被火箭击中的足球场里。在其他地方，被遗弃的儿童自行车躺在一个防空洞附近，这个防空洞距离爆炸地点只有几英尺远，但那些措手不及的人却无法到达。
据以色列官员称，虽然这是哈马斯(Hamas) 10月7日发动恐怖袭击以来，在以色列或以色列控制的领土上发生的最致命的袭击，但袭击的对象主要是一个德鲁兹(Druze)社区，该社区在该地区有着独特的地位。
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据皮尤研究中心(Pew Research Center)称，这次致命的罢工使德鲁兹社区(Druze community)成为人们关注的焦点。德鲁兹是一个关系紧密的教派，其历史可以追溯到11世纪，汲取了基督教、穆斯林和犹太教的信仰，同时融入了“印度教甚至古典希腊哲学”的元素。
它是一个独特的宗教和民族团体，不允许皈依，它的礼拜仪式借鉴了各种传统，包括轮回的信仰和六卷本的智慧之书。
今天，德鲁兹族人口超过100万，主要生活在叙利亚和黎巴嫩，其中一些人已经获得了很高的政治职位，此外还有以色列和约旦。
根据以色列中央统计局的最新数据，以色列约有15万德鲁兹社区成员。
大约有25000人生活在戈兰高地——一个俯瞰约旦河西岸上游河谷的岩石高原——在1967年的六日战争中，以色列从叙利亚手中夺取了戈兰高地，1981年被正式吞并。以色列随后给予他们公民身份。
几十年来，叙利亚一直要求归还该地区，该地区位于该国首都大马士革西南约40英里处，根据国际法和联合国安理会决议，该地区仍被视为被占领土。
2011年叙利亚内战爆发后，戈兰高地越来越多的德鲁兹人寻求以色列国籍，据堪萨斯大学(University of Kansas)研究以色列问题的副教授拉米·泽丹(Rami Zeedan)说，目前约有25%的德鲁兹人持有以色列国籍。泽丹本人也是德鲁兹人。
同时担任《德鲁兹研究期刊》(Druze Studies Journal)编辑的泽丹说，一些德鲁兹人“与以色列社会的联系越来越紧密”，而另一些德鲁兹人仍坚定地坚持自己的叙利亚身份。
Unlike members of Israel's Arab community, most of whom are Muslim or Christian, Israeli Druze are not exempt from military conscription and a large number serve with the Israel Defense Forces. Druze who do not hold Israeli citizenship are not subject to mandatory service.
At least 10 Druze officers and soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, according Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, which reported that eight died in combat in Gaza and two others were killed in the north of the country, where cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah have occurred almost daily since the war in the Gaza Strip began in October.
Hezbollah has previously said it will stop attacking Israel if it ends its campaign in Gaza, where health officials say almost 40,000 people have been killed since Oct. 7, when 1,200 people were killed and around 250 others taken hostage by Hamas, according to Israeli tallies.
It is unusual for the group to deny an attack, but the militant group has nonetheless denied responsibility for the strike in Majdal Shams.
In a series of statements issued Saturday, Hezbollah did say it had struck nearby military targets in the Golan Heights. In one statement, it claimed to have used a Falaq-1 rocket, the same munition Israel says hit the soccer field. However, the timings of the Hezbollah statements do not neatly align with the strike. Hezbollah said the Falaq-1 rocket was fired at 5:20 p.m. local time, while the IDF says Majdal Shams was hit at 6:18 p.m.
Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said there was “every indication” that the rockets were from Hezbollah, adding that he was “deeply saddened” by the loss of life.
With tensions rising, Monday saw a flurry of diplomatic activity ahead of anticipated Israeli retaliation.
The State Department said Blinken in a call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday “emphasized the importance of preventing escalation of the conflict and discussed efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to allow citizens on both sides of the border between Israel and Lebanon to return home.”
In Britain, where the government said Friday that it was dropping its predecessor’s query of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said in a post on X that he had spoken with caretaker Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati “to express my concern at escalating tension.”
Their comments came after Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdo?an suggested Sunday during a meeting of his ruling AK Party that Turkey could enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, Reuters reported. He did not expand on exactly what kind of action he was proposing.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said his country condemned the targeting of civilians in any part of the world, but rejected the idea that Hezbollah would have intentionally targeted a civilian site.
He also stressed that a major attack by Israel in Lebanon would only further escalate hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and risk the eruption of a broader war.
Within the Golan Heights, said Zeedan of the University of Kansas, the pervading response to Saturday’s strike from the Druze community appeared to be a call for calm.
But, he said, they also wanted justice for the children killed.
Raf Sanchez reported from Majdal Shams and Chantal Da Silva from London.
