Israel Attacks Border Crossing Between Syria and Lebanon
Joussieh border crossing before Israeli bombing, 2024. X/ @UNHCRinSYRIA
October 25, 2024 Hour: 8:58 am
Since Sept. 25, human rights defenders has documented at least 23 Israeli attacks on the border between Syria and Lebanon.
On Friday, an Israeli airstrike wounded at least five people, including a Syrian army soldier, at the Joussieh border crossing, used by thousands of people fleeing Lebanon to escape intense Zionist bombardment.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that “three members of the Syrian military intelligence” were killed in this attack, which targeted a checkpoint adjacent to the Immigration and Passport building at the Joussieh crossing in the southwest of the Syrian province of Homs.
“The attacks also caused the crossing to be completely out of service,” added the NGO, based in the United Kingdom but with a wide network of collaborators on the ground.
Since September 25, human rights defenders has documented at least 23 Israeli attacks at different points on the border between Syria and Lebanon. They have also recorded ten dead and eight wounded in the ranks of the Syrian security forces. These attacks began two days after Israel launched its massive bombing campaign against different points in the south and east of the Mediterranean country.
On Friday, Gonzalo Vargas, the representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Syria, indicated this Friday that “an Israeli airstrike targeted the Syrian side of the Joussieh border crossing with Lebanon, near Homs.”
He added that the impact took place “a few meters from the UNHCR waste room, which is used to provide assistance to hundreds of Syrians and Lebanese who arrive after a long and dangerous journey every day.”
“This follows three similar airstrikes on the main border crossing of Jdaiet Yabous (the Syrian side of Masnaa). The deliberate increase in attacks against these vital escape routes endangers the lives of innocent victims,” denounced the representative in Syria of the United Nations agency.
According to UNHCR, more than 430,000 displaced people have fled to Syria after “one month since the deadliest attacks against Lebanon in decades”, while it recalled that there is already a humanitarian crisis in Syria in which around 7.2 million internally displaced people are surviving.
teleSUR/ JF Source: EFE
