Along with Syrian forces, Hezbollah fighters are fighting ISIL and other foreign-backed militant groups, which have been operating in Syria against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011.
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Asked about the reported strike, an Israeli military spokeswoman in Jerusalem declined comment.
In neighboring Lebanon, meanwhile, an explosion occurred at a base belonging to a hard-line pro-Assad Palestinian group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, killing a Palestinian fighter and wounding six, the state-run National News Agency said.
Earlier in the day, Arab media reported in a separate incident that the Israeli Air Force struck a target in Syria, killing at least two people.
At least two pro-Syrian government fighters have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in a village in Syria’s strategic southwestern province of Quneitra, located on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, Lebanon’s al-Manar TV says. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights an Israeli aircraft, possibly unmanned, was behind the attack. Two members of the National Defense Forces, an umbrella group of pro-Syrian government militia, were killed, the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV reported, according to Reuters. The village is surrounded by opposition-controlled territory.
Israeli officials neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the attack.
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According to reports coming out of Lebanon, a vehicle in the outskirts of the town of Khader, near the Israeli border, in Syria’s Quneitra district was bombed at noon.
