Israeli strikes targeting a convoy of tankers in northeastern Lebanon killed three members of Hezbollah, an NGO and a military source tells AFP.

“Three Hezbollah members were killed by nine Israeli missile strikes that targeted a convoy of tankers and a building” in a village in Hermel district on the border with Syria, the military source told AFP, adding that three people were also wounded.

Two others were also killed in the attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor. A few hours before Monday’s strikes, Hezbollah announced that it had shot down another Israeli Hermes drone over Lebanon.

“Three Syrians working with Hezbollah and two Lebanese were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a convoy of tankers entering Lebanon on the border with Syria,” the NGO’s director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Five others had been wounded and two people were missing following the attack, he added. Syrian anti-aircraft defence was activated to counter the attack, according to the war monitor.

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