BEIRUT — Six Lebanese soldiers were injured on Thursday in an Israeli drone raid on the Hosh al-Sayyed Ali area of the Syrian-Lebanese border, according to Lebanese military sources.
The military sources, who spoke anonymously, told Xinhua that “an Israeli drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at a short distance from a Lebanese army checkpoint at the Hosh al-Sayyed Ali crossing in eastern Lebanon,” leaving six soldiers with various injuries and causing damage to the checkpoint and nearby military vehicles.
Meanwhile, the official Lebanese National News Agency reported that “an enemy drone raided the border separating Lebanon and Syria in Hosh al-Sayyed Ali.”
So far there has been no Israeli comment on the drone attack.
The raid came about a week after an Israeli airstrike hit the Syria-Lebanon border known as the Jdeidat Yabous crossing in Syria and the Masnaa crossing in Lebanon, a key transit route used by tens of thousands of Lebanese refugees and Syrian citizens fleeing the Israeli assault in Lebanon.
The latest border attack occurred amid heightened tensions along the Syria-Lebanon border, as Israel continues its unprecedented, intensive air attack on Lebanon in an escalation with Hezbollah.
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6 askar Lubnan cedera dalam serangan dron Israel di lintasan sempadan darat Lubnan-Syria
BEIRUT — Enam askar Lubnan cedera pada Khamis dalam serbuan dron Israel di kawasan Hosh al-Sayyed Ali di sempadan Syria-Lubnan, menurut sumber tentera Lubnan.
Sumber tentera, yang bercakap tanpa nama, memberitahu Xinhua bahawa “sebuah dron Israel menembak dua peluru berpandu udara ke darat pada jarak dekat dari pusat pemeriksaan tentera Lubnan di lintasan Hosh al-Sayyed Ali di timur Lubnan,” menyebabkan enam askar dengan pelbagai kecederaan dan kerosakan pada pusat pemeriksaan dan kenderaan tentera berdekatan.
Sementara itu, Agensi Berita Nasional Lubnan melaporkan “sebuah dron musuh menyerbu sempadan yang memisahkan Lubnan dan Syria di Hosh al-Sayyed Ali.”
Setakat ini belum ada komen Israel mengenai serangan dron itu.
Serbuan itu berlaku kira-kira seminggu selepas serangan udara Israel melanda sempadan Syria-Lubnan yang dikenali sebagai lintasan Jdeidat Yabous di Syria dan lintasan Masnaa di Lubnan, laluan transit utama digunakan oleh puluhan ribu pelarian Lubnan dan warga Syria yang melarikan diri daripada serangan Israel di Lubnan.
Serangan sempadan terbaru berlaku di tengah-tengah ketegangan yang memuncak di sepanjang sempadan Syria-Lubnan, ketika Israel meneruskan serangan udara intensif yang tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini ke atas Lubnan dalam peningkatan (ketegangan) dengan Hizbullah.
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