BEIRUT, June 11, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli strikes targeting a convoy of
tankers in northeastern Lebanon late Monday killed three members of
Hezbollah, an NGO and a military source told AFP.

Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, has traded near-daily fire with Israeli
forces in the eight months since the Gaza war began, triggered by the
Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack.

"Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that
targeted a convoy of tankers and a building" in a village in Hermel district
on the border with Syria, the military source told AFP, adding that three
people were also wounded.

Two others were also killed in the attack, according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.

"Three Syrians working with Hezbollah and two Lebanese were killed in an
Israeli strike targeting a convoy of tankers entering Lebanon on the border
with Syria," the NGO's director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Five others had been wounded and two people were missing following the
attack, he added.

Syrian anti-aircraft defence was activated to counter the attack, according
to the war monitor.

Hezbollah fighters have long been deployed in Syria in support of President
Bashar al-Assad's forces in his country's civil war.

A few hours before Monday's strikes, Hezbollah announced that it had shot
down another Israeli Hermes drone over Lebanon, the fifth of this type since
February.

Hezbollah, which has escalated its use of drones to attack Israeli military
positions, claimed responsibility for several attacks on Monday, including
one drone attack on military positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

Israel has also been stepping up its attacks on Hezbollah, particularly in
the group's stronghold region Baalbek.

More than eight months of violence have left at least 462 people dead in
Lebanon, including around 90 civilians and almost 300 Hezbollah fighters,
according to an AFP count.