A memorial garden was inaugurated at Al-Manahil School in Majdal Shams on Monday in memory of the 12 children killed on July 27, 2024, when a Hezbollah rocket struck a packed soccer field in this picturesque Druze town on Israel’s northern border.

Six of the children—now lovingly remembered in the Majdal Shams community as the “12 angels”—were students at Al-Manahil.

At the ceremony, their families planted colorful flowers in flower boxes, schoolchildren sang songs of praise and the school created a time capsule in their memory that will be sealed until 2075.