Israel launches air strikes on Syria-Lebanon border crossing

Israeli warplanes have carried out another act of aggression against Syria, targeting a main border crossing between the Arab nation and Lebanon.

Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that the overnight air raid targeted the Jusiyah crossing in the al-Qusayr area of the central province of Homs.

The report, citing the director of the crossing Dabbah al-Mashaal, added that the Israeli aggression caused significant damage to the facility. 

According to the Sham FM radio station, at least four strikes were conducted against the area around the Jusiyah crossing.

The attack came amid the outflow of thousands of Lebanese civilians crossing into Syria and fleeing Israel’s full-scale bombardment of Lebanon.

The Jusiyah crossing is strategically significant due to its position along the Syria-Lebanon border and is a known transit point for Lebanese Hezbollah resistance fighters.

On October 25, Israeli air strikes targeted the border crossing, leaving it unable to function.

The UN’s refugee agency estimates that around 560,000 individuals have sought refuge in Syria, fleeing Lebanon since September 23, after the Israeli army intensified its air attack on Lebanon in an escalation of conflict with Hezbollah.

The Israeli airstrikes against Syria come amid the Zionist regime’s bloody onslaughts against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the Lebanese nation.

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Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza, including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship, after Palestinian resistance movements carried out an unprecedented military operation dubbed Al-Aqsa Flood against the regime on October 7, 2023.

At least 44,176 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed while 104,473 individuals have sustained injuries.

Hezbollah opened a support front for Palestinians in Gaza only a day after the Israeli regime unleashed its genocidal war against the besieged territory last October.

After the Israeli regime conducted a series of attacks involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon in September, it intensified its aggression against Hezbollah, resulting in significant loss of life and destruction.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, at least 3,670 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Arab country since October 2023.

In late September, the regime also assassinated Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a strike in southern Beirut.

Israel also frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.

The Tel Aviv regime rarely comments on its attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s phenomenal success in confronting and decimating terrorism.

Israel has been the principal supporter of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria in 2011.

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