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On February 25, an alleged Israeli strike targeted a truck near the western Syrian town of al-Qusayr, which is located close to the border with Lebanon.
The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, which is close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, said that the strike was carried out by an Israeli combat drone. Meanwhile, photos posted to social media indicate that the targeted truck was not carrying any payload. The truck’s cabin was torn into pieces.
Syria’s pro-government Al-Watan newspaper said that three were killed in the alleged Israeli strike, all of whom were civilians.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the strike claimed the lives of two fighters of Hezbollah. It is important to note that the London-based pro-opposition monitoring group shared false information with regard to Israeli attacks on Syria on numerous occasions in the past.
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Hezbollah has maintained a large presence in al-Qusayr as well as in the nearby inactive Dabaa Military Airport in the southwestern countryside of the Homs governorate since its fighters helped the Syrian military recapture the area from rebels in 2013. In the following years, several Israeli strikes hit sites of the group there.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, targeting mainly sites and personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated forces.
Earlier this week, two civilians were killed when an Israeli strike targeted a residential building in the highly-secured Kafr Sousa neighborhood of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Everything suggest that the deadly attack was apparently a failed assassination attempt.
In order to avoid a dangerous confrontation, war-torn Syria has so far largely refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated attacks.
