Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israel carried out strikes late on August 2 against a convoy of trucks entering Lebanon from Syria, AFP reported, citing a source close to Hezbollah.
“Three Israeli strikes targeted a convoy of tanker trucks on the Syrian-Lebanese border in the Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali area,” the news agency quotes the unnamed source as saying.
It was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes in the Lebanese-Syrian border, the source added, noting that a Syrian driver was wounded.
A few hours before the attack in Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, a series of Israeli strikes reportedly hit the nearby Lebanese town of Qasr. Separate reports later said that the strikes also targeted Dabaa Air Base close to the town of al-Qusayr on the Syrian side.
The strikes came amid high tensions as Israel prepares for a possible response by Hezbollah to the assassination of the group’s senior commander Fuad Shukr. Five civilians and an advisor from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed along with Shukr in an Israeli strike that hit the suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on July 30.
The clashes between Israel and Hezbollah broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip last October, with the group and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Hamas Movement and other factions in the Palestinian enclave.
So far, the clashes have resulted in 25 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Golan as well as the deaths of at least 21 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 600 people have been killed, including 368 fighters of Hezbollah and over 100 civilians.
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