Israel launches overnight air raids on Lebanese-Syrian border area
Tel Aviv has continued its aggression against regional nations as it awaits a response to the assassination of top Hezbollah and Hamas leaders
Israeli warplanes launched at least two air raids on the Lebanese-Syrian border area late on 2 August, targeting the Matraba crossing in the town of Al-Qasr and later the village of Hosh al-Sayyed Ali.
According to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA), the second attack targeted a convoy of trucks carrying food from Lebanon to Syria. AFP reported that at least one Syrian driver was injured in the attack.
On Saturday morning, an Israeli airstrike also hit a vehicle in the town of Bazourieh, near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
Israel's latest cross-border aggression comes as the nation awaits retaliation from Hezbollah and Iran following the twin attacks in Beirut and Tehran that killed top resistance commander Fuad Shukr and Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh.
“You do not know which lines you have crossed and what kind of aggression you have committed … We are in an open battle on all fronts, and we have entered a new phase [in the war]," Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned on Thursday.
During a phone call on Friday with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Iran's interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani stressed that it is "Iran's natural and legitimate right to punish the criminal Zionist gang."
He also denounced the failure of some nations in the west countries to condemn the assassination of Haniyeh, noting that the silence of these countries "will encourage the Zionist entity to continue its attacks."
Bagheri Kani's comments came hours before the US government ordered the deployment of more fighter jets and warships to the waters of West Asia after President Joe Biden pledged with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help him overcome the coming retaliation.