THE Beirut called today for an “international investigation” into the deadly strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12, for which Israel blames the Hezbollahand warned that an Israeli attack on Lebanon could spark a regional conflagration.

According to Israel, a rocket attack from Lebanon on a soccer field in the town of Majal Shams killed 12 children and teenagers aged 10 to 16 on Saturday and injured around 30 others and left another 13-year-old missing.

In accordance with Israelit was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 missile, which carried a 53 kg warhead.

Hezbollah, which denies responsibility for the attack, is the only one with such missiles, Israel’s foreign ministry said.

In a statement released by the official National News Agency (ANI), Mr Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib called for “an international investigation or a tripartite commission meeting through UNIFIL to find out the truth” about this attack.

The tripartite commission brings together military officials from Lebanon and Israel, technically at war, and representatives of the United Nations Interim Force deployed in southern Lebanon.

The minister ruled out the possibility that the powerful Hezbollah, which dominates political life in Lebanon, had targeted civilians, insisting it has only targeted “military” positions since the war in Gaza began in October.

He estimated that the attack could “have been carried out by other organizations” or that it could be “Israel’s mistake or even Hezbollah’s mistake.”

The minister called for both sides to implement UN resolution 1701, adopted after the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, stipulating that only the Lebanese army and UNIFIL should be deployed in southern Lebanon.

“A large-scale attack on Lebanon will lead to a worsening of the situation in the region and trigger a regional war,” he warned, while Israel threatened to make Hezbollah pay a “high price.”