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A suspected Israeli strike hit on May 18 a vehicle on an international highway near the town of al-Dimass to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The vehicle was reportedly targeted close to the al-Masnaa border crossing with Lebanon. It is unclear however if it had entered Syria or was leaving the country when it was struck. The strike was allegedly carried out by an Israeli combat drone.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based pro-opposition monitoring group, reported that the fate of two people who were aboard the vehicle at the time of the strike was unknown. However, Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV, which is close to the Syrian government, said that the strike didn’t result in any casualties.
There was no comment from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Israel rarely claims responsibility for attacks on Syria or reveal their targets.
The strike came less than a day after an Israeli strike killed a top commander of the Islamic Group, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, who worked alongside the Palestinian Hamas Movement on the Lebanese side of the al-Masnaa border crossing.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah, Hamas and other affiliated forces of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
Despite taking losses, war-torn Syria has for long refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated attacks in an attempt to avoid a dangerous confrontation.
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