The Israeli military announced on Tuesday, that it conducted a targeted airstrike on a Hezbollah weapons depot in the Syrian town of Al-Qusayr, near the Lebanese border.
According to the Israeli military, the operation targeted “weapons storage facilities used by Hezbollah’s munitions unit in the area of Al-Qusayr.”
The munitions unit, it noted, is primarily responsible for weapons storage in Lebanon and has recently extended its operations into Syria.
Syria’s state news agency, SANA, reported that the strike targeted the industrial zone in Al-Qusayr, with some residential buildings nearby also hit.
However, no casualties were reported by Syrian authorities.
Tensions along the Syria-Lebanon border have intensified as Israel has sought to prevent Hezbollah from replenishing its arsenal, following a recent escalation in conflict.
Last month, Israel struck the Masnaa border crossing, rendering it inoperable on the Lebanese side.
Last Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israeli strikes in Al-Qusayr killed 10 people, primarily civilians, along with three Syrian Hezbollah fighters.
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, stated that “weapons depots and headquarters” utilized by Hezbollah were targeted in those strikes, adding that the operations aimed to “thwart efforts to transfer weapons from Iran via Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon.”
AFP
