With two airstrikes | Israeli aircraft target legitimate crossing at Syrian-Lebanese border
In the past hours, Israeli aircraft targeted, with two airstrikes, Josieh-Al-Qaa crossing, which is considered one of the legitimate crossings in Homs countryside at the Syrian-Lebanese border, which put it out of service, without any information about causalities or the extent of material damage so far.
The Syrian-Lebanese border is witnessing an Israeli escalation on the crossings and border points, in an attempt to cut off supply routes for the Lebanese “Hezbollah” and the Iranian militias present in Syria.
SOHR documented 136 attacks in 2024: 110 airstrikes and 26 rocket attacks by ground forces, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 248 targets, including buildings, weapons and ammunitions warehouses, headquarters, centres and vehicles. These strikes killed 272 combatants and injured 199 others. The fatalities are distributed as follows:
• 25 Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
• 52 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
• 28 Iraqi persons.
• 80 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen.
• 25 Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen.
• 62 regime soldiers.
In addition, those attacks left 51 civilians, including six children, 13 women and a Lebanese man, dead and nearly 58 other civilians injured.
The total civilian death toll includes a Yemeni doctor, his wife and their three children, two women, a child and a man who were killed in the Israeli strike which targeted a building in Al-Mazzah neighbourhood in Damascus.
It is worth noting that one of those attacks killed Baraa Al-Qaterji, a prominent businessman close to Iranians, and his cousin.
The attacks are distributed regionally as follows:
• Damascus and Rif Dimashq: 50 attacks.
• Daraa: 17 attacks.
• Homs: 41 attacks.
• Al-Quneitra: 16 attacks.
• Tartus: Three attacks.
• Deir Ezzor: Five attacks.
• Aleppo: Two attacks.
• Hama: Four attacks.
• Al-Suwaidaa: Two attacks.
• Latakia: Two attacks.
SOHR would like to point out that Israel sometimes targeted more than one province in a single attack.