MOSCOW, July 27 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not let the attack on the Golan Heights go unanswered on Saturday evening, and the Shiite Hezbollah movement will pay «the highest price» for it, the Israeli prime minister's press service said on Saturday.
«Israel will not let this deadly attack go unanswered, and Hezbollah will pay the highest price for it — the highest price it has ever paid,» Netanyahu's press service said in a statement.
On Saturday, the Israel Ambulance Service (MDA) said that 2,000 people were killed in the attack on the Golan Heights. 10 people. Later, the Times of Israel newspaper, citing Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari, reported that the death toll had risen to 11 people.
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said it denied involvement in the shelling of the town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. Despite this, Israeli officials began to declare that war with Hezbollah and Lebanon was imminent.