Israel says it has hit several targets on Lebanese-Syrian border

Israel says it has hit several targets on Lebanese-Syrian border

The Israeli military said it attacked several targets in the border area on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Israel’s army said it had attacked infrastructure used by the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah militia along the Lebanese-Syrian border, specifically routes used by Hezbollah to bring weapons to Lebanon via Syria.

Four border crossings have been hit since Israel intensified its attacks in Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese security sources said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been documenting violence in Syria since 2011, said Israeli warplanes attacked a border crossing in the area around the Syrian town of al-Qusayr, near the border with Lebanon.

The war monitor said several people were injured.

It is the first Israeli attack on Syrian territory since Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon on Monday, the observatory said.

According to information from the war monitor, Hezbollah tried to use the border crossings to bring more fighters from Yemen and Iraq into the country.

They were suppose to come in the country to support the Shiite militia in the event of a feared ground offensive by the Israeli military, it said.

A picture of the secretary-general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah is seen among the rubble in a house that was struck by an Israeli air strike in the village of Saksakieh, south of Lebanese-Israeli border. Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets with an aerial offensive. Str-/dpa

A picture of the secretary-general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah is seen among the rubble in a house that was struck by an Israeli air strike in the village of Saksakieh, south of Lebanese-Israeli border. Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets with an aerial offensive. Str-/dpa

Rubble and destruction caused by an Israeli air strike is pictured in a neighbourhood in the village of Saksakieh, south of Lebanese-Israeli border. Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets with an aerial offensive. Str-/dpaRubble and destruction caused by an Israeli air strike is pictured in a neighbourhood in the village of Saksakieh, south of Lebanese-Israeli border. Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets with an aerial offensive. Str-/dpa

Rubble and destruction caused by an Israeli air strike is pictured in a neighbourhood in the village of Saksakieh, south of Lebanese-Israeli border. Tens of thousands of people fled southern Lebanon as Israel continues to pound Hezbollah targets with an aerial offensive. Str-/dpa

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