‘It was indescribable’: Golan Heights town mourns 12 children killed in strike

Majdal Shams residents tell of scenes of horror after children who had gathered to play football were struck

The funeral lament rang out across Majdal Shams, from the centre of the town, from balconies and from rooftops. Thousands of mourners packed the narrow streets and squares, carrying small coffins covered in white shrouds to their final resting place.

Men from the town in the occupied Golan Heights, some wearing traditional white hats topped with red, linked arms and sung a mourners' chant. The mother cries: Where is my son? Don't say he is among the victims,'" they intoned. Oh, children, tears are pouring from the eyes of girls and young men."