JERUSALEM, Dec 6, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Israel's army said Friday it had 
conducted air strikes on Hezbollah "weapon-smuggling routes" on the Syria-
Lebanon border, just over a week into a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon.

Lebanon's General Security agency said Friday that crossings to Syria, except 
the main Masnaa point, would close "until further notice" due to "the 
repeated Israeli attacks that have targeted land border crossings, especially 
in the north".

The Israeli military said the air force "conducted strikes on weapon-
smuggling routes and terror infrastructure sites located near the Syrian 
regime's crossings at the Syrian-Lebanese border", in a statement that 
included a map identifying a crossing as Al-Arida.

Syrian state news agency SANA reported that "the Al-Arida border crossing 
between Syria and Lebanon is out of service again due to an Israeli attack 
that targeted it" early Friday.

Lebanon's official National News Agency said the strike "led to damage to 
infrastructure" and cut off the border road "again after the bridge was 
repaired".

The Israeli army said the strikes aimed to prevent weapons smuggling from 
Syria into Lebanon, and has struck Syria-Lebanon border crossings in the past 
for the same reason.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Israeli warplanes 
also launched air strikes targeting a border crossing "linking Lebanese 
territory with the outskirts of Qusayr southwest of Homs".

Syrian state media did not report the strikes in the area.

The raids come amid mutual accusations between Israel and Hezbollah of 
violating the ceasefire that came into effect in Lebanon on November 27.

Later on Friday, the Israeli military said its troops operating in the west 
of southern Lebanon had "located and destroyed launchers aimed at Israeli 
territory, as well as a truck equipped with a missile launcher, mortars, 
dozens of rockets, crates of ammunition" and assault rifles.

The military insisted it was operating within the terms of the ceasefire 
agreement.