Bereaved father in Israeli-controlled Golan Heights recounts moment daughter was killed by rocket

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(30 Jul 2024)
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Majdal Shams, Golan Heights - 29 July 2024
1. Mother of 11-year-old Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din killed by rocket attack on Saturday, Alma's brother hugging his mother
2. Mother and brother of Alma Ayman crying, holding a picture of her
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ayman Fakhr al-Din, father of 11-year-old Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din killed in rocket attack: ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 AND 5++
"I started asking MADA (Magen David Adom) and United Hatzalah (the emergency services) where is my daughter, is she here? No one gave me an answer because of the situation but suddenly I went to the corner. I saw such a tiny girl in a bag. I recognized her from her shoes, I recognized her from her hand. I understood that that's it, nothing is left, she's gone."
4. Pictures of Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din
5. Picture of Alma Ayman on window
6. Various of mourners paying their respect to Ayman Fakhr al-Din and family
7. Mourners sitting
8. Various of young people at soccer field crying by photos
STORYLINE:
The Druze community of Majdal Shams, a town in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, were reeling Monday after a rocket attack over the weekend that killed 12 of the town’s children and teenagers.

Ayman Fakhr al-Din, the father of Alma Ayman, an 11-year-old girl who kas killed in the attack, said his daughter was a gifted child full of energy.

The grieving parents and sibling of Alma were visited by members of their community paying their respects.

Israel has blamed Hezbollah for Saturday evening’s rocket attack that slammed into a soccer field where the children were playing in the mainly Druze town of Majdal Shams.

In an unusual move, Hezbollah denied any role in the strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed heavy retaliation against Hezbollah amid furious diplomatic efforts to prevent a spiral into regional war following a weekend rocket strike that killed 12 children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

AP video shot by: Alon Bernstein; Leo Correa

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