Israeli drone strikes Palestinian base in Lebanon

The Lebanese Shiite group are deepening their involvement in the Syrian civil war, increasingly afraid that President Assad will lose and that a jihadist group might take over the whole country in the ensuing power vacuum.

Israel’s own significant Druze minority has expressed concern that their brethren in Syria would be targeted by rebels there.

The Israel Defense Forces has not confirmed the attack.

The Israeli air force bombards a surface-to-air missiles site and adjacent military complex near Damascus suspected of holding chemical agents, with a US official saying Israel feared the transfer of weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. The Israeli military refused to confirm the drones’ ownership. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights an Israeli aircraft, possibly unmanned, was behind the attack.

He explained that the post overlooks Syria’s al-Zabadani area, which has been witnessing fighting between regime forces, backed by Hezbollah, and rebel groups.

Since his released in a 2008 prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, Kuntar has been responsible for several attacks against IDF soldiers in the Golan Heights. A second airstrike was reportedly carried out in eastern Lebanon, where one Palestinian was killed and six were wounded.

Asked about the reported strike, an Israeli military spokeswoman in Jerusalem declined comment.

– September 23: Israel shoots down a Syrian fighter jet as it attempts to fly over the ceasefire line above the Israeli-occupied Golan.

The village is surrounded by Syrian opposition-controlled territory.

The strike targeted the mainly Druze region of al-Hadr in the Quneitra province on the Golan Heights.

Al-Manar, another Hezbollah-linked news portal, reported that it was an Israeli drone that had struck the vehicle, killing two members of a pro-Assad militia.