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Quiet and deeply sombre scene around Majdal Shams football pitchpublished at 09:49

Paul Adams
reporting from the Golan Heights

There are plenty of people here – local Druze elders in their distinctive red and white turbans and baggy trousers, military officials, visiting government ministers and of course many journalists.

But conversations, around the crater where the rocket landed, are hushed, respectful.

A black flag flies at the spot where the rocket landed last night, gouging a shallow crater in the pitch and blowing out the metal fence around the pitch.

There are shrapnel holes everywhere.

Wreaths have just been laid.

Many people are simply standing by the crater, taking in the scene, lost in thought.

In the corner of the pitch, someone has tried to remove the bloodstains on the artificial turf, but with only limited success.

Outside the fence, bicycles and scooters lie scattered, all blackened from yesterday’s brief but devastating fireball.

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