Israel reportedly carried out a strike Wednesday on a Hezbollah vehicle in Syria, close to the Lebanese border, The Times of Israel informed.
Channel 13 news, citing the Al Jazeera network, said a number of Hezbollah terrorists were killed in the strike on a civilian vehicle transporting weaponry from Syria to Lebanon.
However, there were some reports in Arab media that the vehicle’s occupants managed to flee before it was hit, and that they included senior Hezbollah officials whom the IDF was targeting.
Images posted on social media appeared to show a mangled and burnt vehicle, The Times of Israel adds.
Israel has long maintained that it would not accept the establishment of a permanent military presence in Syria by Hezbollah or Iran, which backs the Lebanese terror group.
Though Israeli officials generally refrain from taking responsibility for specific strikes in Syria, they have acknowledged conducting hundreds to thousands of raids in the country since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
These have overwhelmingly been directed against Iran and its proxies, notably the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, but the IDF has also carried out strikes on Syrian air defenses when those batteries have fired at Israeli jets, the news outlet added.
An agreement with Russia was supposed to push Iranian and Tehran-backed militias, including Hezbollah, dozens of kilometers away from the border.
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