More than eight months of violence have left at least 462 people dead in Lebanon.
Beirut:
Israeli attacks on an oil tanker convoy in northeast Lebanon on Monday night killed three Hezbollah members, an NGO and military source told AFP.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has exchanged fire almost daily with Israeli forces in the eight months since the start of the war in Gaza, triggered by the Palestinian operational group’s October 7 attack.
“Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile attacks that targeted a convoy of oil tankers and a building” in a village in the Hermel district, on the border with Syria, the military source told AFP, adding that three people were also injured .
Two other people were also killed in the attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
“Three Syrians who worked with Hezbollah and two Lebanese were killed in an Israeli attack on a convoy of oil tankers entering Lebanon on the border with Syria,” the NGO’s director, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP.
Five others were injured and two people were missing after the attack, he added.
Syrian anti-aircraft defense was activated to contain the attack, according to the war monitor.
Hezbollah fighters have long been deployed in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in his country’s civil war.
Just hours before Monday’s attacks, Hezbollah announced that it had shot down another Israeli Hermes drone over Lebanon, the fifth of its kind since February.
Hezbollah, which has stepped up its use of drones to attack Israeli military positions, claimed responsibility for several attacks on Monday, including a drone attack on military positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Israel has also intensified its attacks on Hezbollah, particularly in the group’s stronghold region of Baalbek.
More than eight months of violence have left at least 462 people dead in Lebanon, including around 90 civilians and nearly 300 Hezbollah fighters, according to an AFP count.
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