BEIRUT, Lebanon
Israeli strikes targeting a convoy of tankers entering Lebanon from Syria late Monday killed three members of Hezbollah, a Lebanese military source and a war monitor said.
A Hamas ally, the Iran-backed
militant group has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the
Palestinian group’s October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza.
“Three Hezbollah members were
killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that targeted a convoy of tankers and a
building” in a northeastern village on the border with Syria, the military
source told our reporter, adding that three people were also wounded.
The Israeli military said its
“fighter jets struck a military complex of the Hezbollah 4400 unit, the
logistical reinforcement unit of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.”
“The unit is used to smuggle
weapons to and from Lebanon,” it said in a statement, adding that it had hit
two targets in the Baalbek region of eastern Lebanon.
Britain-based war monitor the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a total of five people were killed in
the Israeli strike.
“Three Syrians working with
Hezbollah and two Lebanese were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a convoy
of tankers entering Lebanon on the border with Syria,” the monitor’s director
Rami Abdel Rahman told reporters.
The Israeli army said it also
carried out strikes in southern Lebanon overnight after one of its drones was
shot down on Monday.
A few hours before the
strikes, Hezbollah said it had downed an Israeli Hermes drone over Lebanon, the
fifth of the type since February.
Hezbollah, which has stepped
up its own use of drones, said it carried out several attacks against Israeli
targets on Monday, including a drone attack on a military position in the
Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
More than eight months of
violence have killed at least 462 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also
including around 90 civilians, according to an AFP count.
On the Israeli side of the
border, at least 15 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed, according to
the army.
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