Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A series of Israeli strikes hit the central Syrian governorate of Homs late on November 13, destroying a number of bridges and roads on the border with Lebanon.
The strikes were launched from the direction of Lebanon, a military official told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, adding that the strikes hit bridges on the Orontes River and roads leading to the border with Lebanon in the town of Al-Qusayr in the southwestern Homs countryside.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the strikes hit the bridges of Tal Mando, al-Arjoun, Beit Khader, al-Daf, and al-Adar, as well as the checkpoints of al-Dabaa, al-Mashtal, and al-Jubaniyeh which are manned by personnel from the Syrian military’s elite 4th Armored Division.
At least 11 people were wounded by the Israeli strikes, according to Sham FM. The pro-government radio station didn’t clarify if any of them were military personnel.
The IDF later claimed responsibility for the strikes, saying in a statement that it hit crossings in Syria used by Hezbollah to bring weapons into Lebanon. The crossings were being run by the group’s Unit 4400, which is tasked with delivering weapons from Iran, the military alleged.
According to the IDF, the strikes on the border crossings in Homs dealt a major blow to the capabilities of Hezbollah’s Unit 4400.
Israel escalated its attacks on Syria after the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of the IRGC, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
After expanding operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon in September, the IDF said that it will work to prevent the supply of any weapons from Iran to Hezbollah through the Lebanese-Syrian border.
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