Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
On August 28, a suspected Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle on the Syrian side of the Damascus-Beirut highway close to the town of Zabadani.
Syrian state-run media didn’t report on the strike. However, Sham Fm, a Syrian pro-government radio station, said that the strike claimed the lives of four people, without providing any further details.
Later, Reuters, citing two unnamed security sources, confirmed that four were killed in the strike, a fighter from Lebanon’s Hezbollah and three from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The targeted vehicle was not transporting weapons, according to the sources.
There is still no comment from Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on the deadly drone strike, which is yet to be officially claimed by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Israel has significantly escalated its attacks on Syria since the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, targeting Syrian military sites as well as personnel of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and other factions of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
Recent Israeli strikes on Syria claimed the lives of dozens of military personnel, civilians and foreign fighters. Still, the war-torn country has so far refrained from directly responding in what appears to be an attempt to avoid a dangerous confrontation with Israel.
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