Israel experiences its deadliest attack from Hezbollah in months-long conflict, IDF reports, increasing concerns about an escalation.

At least 10 people, including children, were killed in Majdal Shams, Israel, on Saturday when Hezbollah launched rockets from Syria.

The soccer field in the majority Druze town is a scene of shocking violence and the most devastating loss of life in the north since Hezbollah entered the war on behalf of the terrorist entity Hamas on Oct. 7. The Magen David Adom ambulance service says the victims are aged 10 to 20.

The Hezbollah terrorist organization is responsible for the rocket launch at a soccer field in Majdal Shams that resulted in multiple civilian casualties, including children, according to an IDF situational assessment and the intelligence in our possession.

According to a political source, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently in the U.S., was receiving updates and conducting assessments while residents of Northern Israel were advised to remain in shelters.

Yoav Gallant, Israel's Minister of Defense, and LTG Herzi Halevi, the IDF's Chief of the General Staff, were evaluating the situation following the attack.

On Saturday, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing into Israel from Lebanon, where the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hezbollah is the de facto ruler.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz stated on a TV news show that the country is preparing for an all-out war against Hezbollah and will respond with a disproportionate force, according to a report by Israeli journalists Ben Caspit and Dafna Liel.

This month, Yakkov Amidror, the former national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke with Planet Chronicle Digital about the possibility of an imminent full-blown war between Israel and the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah.

According to Jason Brodsky, an expert on Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah, had warned in July about striking new targets in Israel. It is likely that Nasrallah had Majdal Shams in mind, a town outside of major population centers like Tel Aviv, which would have made it easier for Hezbollah to carry out the attack without triggering a decisive response. As a Druze town, Nasrallah might have thought that Hezbollah could get away with it.

Brodsky, the policy director of United Against A Nuclear Iran, stated, "An attack of this nature may prove to be a miscalculation on Hezbollah's part because it has the potential to change the dynamics of the conflict in the north due to the mass civilian casualties, including children. How did we get here? Eroded deterrence. Hezbollah has been under the impression that the U.S. would constrain Israeli operations in Lebanon. When U.S. policy is centered on desecration, it begets the very escalation that they hope to avoid."

Since the start of the war against Hamas, Israel has killed 500 terrorists in Lebanon and estimates that some 5000 projectiles have been fired into Israel.