Israeli emergency and security personnel deploy at the impact site of a reported rocket fired from Lebanon, on the Horeshim interchange in central Israel on October 1, 2024. – Air raid sirens sounded in central Israel on October 1 and an AFP journalist heard explosions in the city of Tel Aviv, with the military saying projectiles had been fired from Lebanon. Police said one projectile hit a road near the central town of Kfar Kassen, wounding a man who was struck by shrapnel and treated by emergency services. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)
Lebanon said an Israeli air strike on the Syrian border on Friday cut off the main international road linking the two countries.
Coastal Lebanon shares a border with Israel, with which Hezbollah is at war, and Syria, where tens of thousands of people have taken refuge from the violence engulfing the country.
Israel has said Hezbollah uses the road to bring weapons across the border from Syria, with which it is allied.
“The road that leads to the main humanitarian crossing for thousands of Lebanese into Syria is now cut off after an Israeli strike,” Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told AFP.
The official National News Agency also reported the strike, saying that “enemy warplanes hit the Masnaa area”, as the crossing is known, “cutting off the road”.
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