BEIRUT: At least two Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli strike in Syria near the Lebanese border on Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in a report said Israeli missile struck a civilian truck near the Syrian-Lebanese border.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7.
Britain-based Observatory, which has a network of sources in Syria said that the Israeli strike led to the death of at least two Hezbollah members.
Hezbollah later in separate statements said that two of its members were “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”, the term it uses to refer to members killed by Israeli strike.
A source near to Hezbollah confirmed that both of its members were killed this morning in Syria.
Since Syria’s civil war started in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, mainly against pro-Iran forces, including Hezbollah and the Syrian army.
According to the Observatory, an Israeli strike on a Damascus residential block on Wednesday killed three Iran-backed fighters, a Syrian and two foreign national.
On February 10, it reported an Israeli attack on a building in west of Damascus that killed three people from pro-Iran militias.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, Hezbollah has confirmed the death of 16 members killed by Israeli strikes in Syria.
The Israeli military on February 3 announced that it had struck more than 50 such targets of Hezbollah Syria from the ground and air.
