BEIRUT: An Israeli strike on a truck in Syria near the Lebanese border killed two Hezbollah members at dawn on Sunday, a war monitor said.”Israel struck a civilian truck with a missile near the Syrian-Lebanese border,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a report.The strike led to “the death of at least two Hezbollah members”, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources in Syria.Hezbollah later announced in separate statements that two of its fighters were “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”, the phrase it uses to refer to members killed by Israeli fire.A source close to Hezbollah confirmed that both were killed this morning in Syria.Syrian state media did not report the strike.Since Syria’s civil war began in 2011 following an uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, primarily against pro-Iran forces, among them Hezbollah and the Syrian army.The strikes have multiplied amidst the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.An Israeli strike on a Damascus residential neighbourhood on Wednesday killed three Iran-backed fighters, a Syrian and two foreigners, according to the Observatory.
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