The Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah is fighting alongside the Syrian military in the country’s civil war.
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It seems Israel, like much of the global community is split over its stance to Syria, wanting to see stability in their north-eastern neighbour but cautious of any interferences backfiring. There is information that two soldiers of the National Defense Forces were killed.
An Israeli drone attack in southern Syria killed three people on Wednesday, while another Israeli airstrike targeting an outpost for a pro-Syrian Palestinian group in eastern Lebanon wounded six members of the group, according to the Syrian government and an activist group. The Israeli military refused to confirm the drones’ ownership.
– May 3: A raid near Damascus targets Iranian weapons destined for Hezbollah, a senior Israeli official says.
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three of the dead were members of the pro-Assad militia and two belonged to Hezbollah, the Times of Israel reported.
– October 30: Fighter jets hit a military airbase in regime stronghold Latakia, northwestern Syria, to halt a shipment of surface-to-air missiles to Hezbollah, according to Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television.
The auto was traveling in the Syrian Golan Heights near the border with Israel when it was hit.
Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Wednesday that a suspected Israeli Air Force (IAF) strike on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights had eliminated the notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar, along with four other militants loyal to the regime of dictator Bashar Assad.
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Al-Manar TV, an outlet of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, said the strike targeted a vehicle carrying members of the Syrian National Defence Committees, a pro-Assad militia, near Hader.
