Late Tuesday, Israeli strikes hit Lebanon’s three northern border crossings with Syria for the first time.
Lebanon’s transport minister, Ali Hamieh, told the news agency Reuters.
The attacks happened shortly before the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that Israel and Lebanon have approved an agreement on a ceasefire, which will come into force at 03:00 on Wednesday Danish time.
According to Hamieh, it is not immediately clear whether the roads at the three border crossings to Syria have been closed as a result of the attacks.
In recent weeks, Israel has also attacked Lebanon’s eastern border crossings with Syria, which have therefore already been closed.
The Syrian branch of the Red Crescent aid organization says a volunteer aid worker was killed in Tuesday’s attack.
Another was simultaneously wounded in “the aggressions that targeted the border crossings Al-Dabousyeh and Al-Arida, when they (the volunteers, ed.) performed their humanitarian duty by rescuing the wounded”, says the organization.
Several ambulances were also hit during the attacks, it goes on to say.
According to Syrian state television, a total of 18 people have been injured in the attacks against the Al-Arida border crossing. Some of them are in critical condition, it goes on, and several have been taken to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Syrian state television also reports that the attacks on the border crossing Al-Dabousyeh have cost lives. However, it is not clear how many people this should be.
There is still no information about the third border crossing, which, according to Ali Hamieh, has also been attacked.
Israel’s military did not immediately return Reuters’ inquiry. The military has previously said that it is targeting targets in Syria that it believes are linked to Iran.
Late on Tuesday, the US Central Command, Centcom, announced that it had carried out an attack in Syria against a weapons warehouse belonging to “an Iranian-backed group”.
The US does not immediately believe that anyone died in this attack, according to a post on X from Centcom.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
