29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 29 July 2015 - 18:31
Story Code : 173913

Israeli drone strike kills 2 people in southwestern Syria: Al-Manar

At least two members of the Syrian Armed Forceshave been killed inan Israelidrone strike in avillage in Syrias strategic southwestern provinceof Quneitra, located on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, Lebanon's al-Manar TV says.

The official television station of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah said on Wednesday that "two members of Syria's National Defense Forces (a branch of Syrian Armed Forces)were killed when an Israeli drone targeted their car at the entrance of Hader, in Quneitra Province."

However, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five people in totalwere killed in the airstrike.

The UK-based groupsaid an Israeli plane had hit a car, killing two men from the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, and three men from pro-government popular committees in the Druze town.

The Israeli militaryhas not yet commented on the attack.

Hader borders the line separating Syrias side of the Golan Heights from the Israeli section, occupied since the war of 1967.

The Druze town has been witnessing clashes between militants and members of pro-Syrian government groups in recent weeks.

The attack in Syria on Wednesday is not the first to be carried out by Israel.

Back in January, an Israeli attack claimed the lives of six Hezbollah fighters near Quneitra.

The Tel Aviv regime has carried out at least five airstrikes against the region over the pastyear.

Along with Syrian forces, Hezbollah fighters are fighting ISIL and other foreign-backed militant groups, which have been operating in Syriaagainst the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011.

By Press TV
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