BEIRUT (AFP) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, mostly civilians, were killed on Thursday in strikes on Syria’s Qusayr region bordering Lebanon. The Britain-based war monitor said three strikes targeted the town of Qusayr, where Hezbollah holds sway, and surrounding areas, later reporting further strikes on the area.
One strike targeted “a weapons depot and a fuel storage facility for Hezbollah in the industrial city of Qusayr”, killing seven civilians and three Syrian fighters working for the Lebanese group, the Observatory said.
At least 11 other people were wounded, it said, adding that the other strikes targeted warehouses near the Lebanese border and a bridge south of Qusayr.
The Israeli military’s spokesman Avichay Adraee said “weapons depots and headquarters used by” Hezbollah were hit in the region.
Syria’s official SANA news agency reported Israeli strikes on Qusayr’s industrial zone and some residential neighbourhoods, saying they caused material damage.
The vast land border between Israel and Syria has increasingly come under attack by Israel since its war with Hezbollah began.
