Israeli strikes targeting a group of tankers in northeastern Lebanon late Monday killed three members of Hezbollah, according to the media sources.
A Hamas ally, Lebanon’s Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces in the eight months since the Gaza war started, triggered by the Palestinian operative group’s October 7 attack.
According to the military sources, ‘Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that targeted a convoy of tankers and a building in a village in Hermel district on the border with Syria.
Three people were also wounded. Two others were also killed in the attack. ‘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’, said the NGO’s director Rami Abdel Rahman.
He added, ‘Five others had been wounded and two people were missing following the attack’. Syrian anti-aircraft defence was activated to counter the attack, according to the war monitor.
Hezbollah fighters have long been deployed in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in his country’s civil war.
Hezbollah announced a few hours before Monday’s strikes that it had shot down another Israeli Hermes drone over Lebanon, the fifth of this type since February.
Hezbollah, which has escalated its use of drones to attack Israeli military positions, claimed responsibility for several attacks on Monday.
It includes one drone attack on military positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Israel has also been stepping up its attacks on Hezbollah, specifically in the group’s stronghold region Baalbek.
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