The Israeli military allegedly struck targets in Syria and Lebanon on Wednesday night, according to state media in the two countries.
Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on southern Syria, the official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
“At around 11:40 p.m., the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial assault from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of positions in the southern region, killing two people and injuring a soldier,” SANA said, after initially reporting one death.
It said Syrian air defense had also shot down some missiles, without giving further details.
The strike was reportedly near Sayyida Zeinab, which is home to an important Shiite sanctuary and is defended by pro-Iranian militias and the Syrian army.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike targeted the service center of a foundation affiliated with pro-Iranian groups, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group, and killed three people, including an elderly woman, with another 11 injured.
SOHR, run by a single person, has regularly been accused by Syrian war analysts of false reporting and inflating casualty numbers as well as inventing them wholesale.
Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly targeting army positions and Iran-backed fighters, including from Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on Wednesday wounded five people when it hit a two-story building in the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese state media, which said Israel had carried out some 10 strikes on border regions during the day.
The strike destroyed the building in Nabatieh around 10 p.m., Lebanon’s national news agency said, adding that five people who were in the vicinity of the structure were wounded and taken to hospital.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on either strike.
Hezbollah on Wednesday claimed six attacks against Israeli military positions in the border region, amid fears of an all-out war between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.
Israeli local authorities confirmed that several anti-tank guided missiles fired by Hezbollah on Wednesday caused some damage.
Strikes have increased since war broke out on October 7 between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, when thousands of terrorists invaded southern Israel from Gaza, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
