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Israeli Airstrike Cuts Off Road Linking Lebanon, Syria

Israel has said Hezbollah uses the road to bring weapons across the border from Syria, with which it is allied.

By Channels Television
Updated October 4, 2024
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Israeli emergency and security personnel deploy at the impact site of a reported rocket fired from Lebanon, on the Horeshim interchange in central Israel on October 1, 2024. – Air raid sirens sounded in central Israel on October 1 and an AFP journalist heard explosions in the city of Tel Aviv, with the military saying projectiles had been fired from Lebanon. Police said one projectile hit a road near the central town of Kfar Kassen, wounding a man who was struck by shrapnel and treated by emergency services. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

 

Lebanon said an Israeli air strike on the Syrian border on Friday cut off the main international road linking the two countries.

Coastal Lebanon shares a border with Israel, with which Hezbollah is at war, and Syria, where tens of thousands of people have taken refuge from the violence engulfing the country.

 

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburb early on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Fadel ITANI / AFP)

 

Israel has said Hezbollah uses the road to bring weapons across the border from Syria, with which it is allied.

 

Activists and supporters of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, a Shiite political party, take part in a protest march to condemn the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, late leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, in Islamabad on September 29, 2024. (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM / AFP)

 

“The road that leads to the main humanitarian crossing for thousands of Lebanese into Syria is now cut off after an Israeli strike,” Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told AFP.

 

Mourners march with a symbolic coffin during a memorial service for Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut days earlier, in Baghdad’s eastern suburb of Sadr City on September 29, 2024 after Iraq officially declared a three-day national mourning period for Nasrallah. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

 

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The official National News Agency also reported the strike, saying that “enemy warplanes hit the Masnaa area”, as the crossing is known, “cutting off the road”.

 

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