Israeli Airstrike Reportedly Hits Truck in Lebanon Carrying Military Equipment

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
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Israeli Airstrike Reportedly Hits Truck in Lebanon Carrying Military Equipment

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

An Israeli airstrike hit a pickup truck traveling in northeast Lebanon late on Tuesday, two security sources told Reuters, with one of the sources saying it carried military equipment.

The two sources said the strike hit a pickup near Chaat, a remote area of Lebanon near the Syrian border, but that the driver survived.

One of the sources said it was likely the military equipment being transported was a damaged rocket launcher on the way to be repaired.

Two days earlier, Hezbollah and the Israeli military engaged in one of the most intense exchanges of fire between them over the last 10 months amid fears that Israel's war in Gaza would become a wider regional conflict.

Hezbollah fired drones and rockets at Israel early on Sunday to avenge a top military commander killed by Israel last month.

Israel has said its strikes on Lebanon on Sunday destroyed Hezbollah rocket launch sites and prevented a wider attack by the group. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the attack had gone as planned and that Israeli strikes afterwards had damaged some Hezbollah launch sites.



Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say 

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
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Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say 

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)

An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing through a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters.

The car was not transporting weapons, the sources said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, to which one of the sources said the three Palestinian fighters belonged.

Local Syrian official Abdo al-Taqi told a Syrian radio station that a car was targeted on Wednesday morning on the road between the Syrian capital Damascus and Lebanon's capital Beirut, and four people were killed.

Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other armed factions have launched rockets and drones at Israel from southern Lebanon. The groups have strong ties to Iran and to Syria's government and have transported fighters and weapons through the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.

Israel has not commented on the incident. While it takes responsibility for strikes it carries out on Lebanon, it almost never does the same for strikes it is accused of carrying out in Syria.

Israel has targeted weapons shipments and other military infrastructure in Syria for years and has stepped up its strikes there since October, when the Gaza war began.

Wednesday's drone strike came hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a pickup truck in northeast Lebanon near the Syrian border. A security source told Reuters that the vehicle was carrying military equipment, likely a damaged rocket launcher on the way to be repaired.