Three dead in Israeli strikes against “Hezbollah” infrastructure in Qousseir

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced Thursday that three people had been killed in Israeli strikes on the Qousseir region near Lebanon, where Hezbollah, at war against Israel, is present.

“The Israeli aggression caused damage in the industrial zone and certain residential neighborhoods of Qousseir, in the region of Homs (center),” said the official Syrian press agency Sana, reporting “wounded among civilians.” The OSDH, based in the United Kingdom and which has a vast network of sources in the country at war, specified that a strike had targeted “an arms depot and a Hezbollah fuel warehouse in the industrial zone of Qousseir”, killing three people, whose nationality could not be determined. The NGO added that the raid also “injured five Syrian civilians”.

Other warehouses were targeted on the Syrian-Lebanese border, as well as a bridge south of the city, according to the OSDH.

The correspondent of The Orient-The Day in the Bekaa, Sarah Abdallah, reported in the morning that a strike had notably targeted the village of Hoch al-Sayyed Ali, in the Hermel region, which is located along the border, opposite Qousseir.

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The Israeli army announced that it had “attacked weapons depots and headquarters of Hezbollah’s elite al-Radwane unit and Hezbollah’s weapons unit in Syria” in the region. of Qousseir. These strikes “come in addition to efforts to target the infrastructure of Hezbollah unit 4400, responsible for transporting weapons from Iran to Lebanon, via Syria”.

This month, Israel intensified strikes on the border areas where the crossings between Lebanon and Syria are located, knocking out two main crossings. The Israeli army says Hezbollah uses them to transport weapons from Syria, an ally of the Lebanese Shiite movement supported by Iran.

More than half a million people in Lebanon have fled across the border into Syria since Hezbollah and Israel entered into open war on September 23, according to Lebanese authorities. Since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of raids on the country targeting the Syrian army and Tehran-backed groups, including Hezbollah, deployed in support of government forces.