Israeli airstrike on border crossing in Syria injures two civilians

At least two civilians have sustained injuries when an Israeli airstrike hit the area near the main border crossing point for people fleeing the escalating bombing and ground campaign in Lebanon for Syria.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing an unnamed military source, reported that the Israeli enemy launched an aerial assault from the direction of Lebanese territories at around 9 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) on Monday, targeting the Jusiyah crossing on the Syria-Lebanon border, which it had previously bombed.

The source added that the attack resulted in the injury of two civilians, and caused material damage to the facility. 

On Saturday night, an Israeli air raid targeted the Jusiyah crossing in the al-Qusayr area of Syria’s province of Homs, and inflicted serious damage on it.

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.

Israeli airstrike kills 36 people in Syria’s historic town of Palmyra

An Israeli airstrike on Syria’s historic city of Palmyra has killed at least 36 people and wounded more than 50 others, officials say.

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 44,235 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed while 104,638 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.

More than 3,600 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, with over 15,300 others injured and more than a million displaced since the onset of hostilities on October 8, 2023, according to Lebanese health authorities.

Nearly dozen injured in terrorist attack on military bus in western Syria

In a separate incident, a military bus carrying Syrian soldiers was hit by an explosive device on the highway linking the western cities of Homs and Masyaf.

SANA, quoting a Homs provincial official, reported that the bus was targeted as it was traveling near the crossroad of al-Haisa village. Eleven people were wounded in the attack, one of them in a critical condition.

The official added that the injured soldiers were transported to a nearby military hospital to receive medical treatment.

Five Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli aggression near Lebanon border

Israel carries out a new aerial assault on Syria, killing five soldiers and injuring another near the country’s border with Lebanon.

Syria is still facing sporadic terror attacks by remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, which overran large swathes of the Arab country in 2014, but was defeated by the Damascus government and its allies in late 2019.

The Syrian government says the United States, the Israeli regime, and their Western and regional allies are materially sponsoring Takfiri terrorist groups that are engaged in destabilizing the country.

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 more than a decade ago.

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