Second reported Israeli strike in Syria hits Palestinian militia

Israel has launched intermittent attacks against targets inside Syria and Lebanon throughout the Syrian Civil War, usually targeting Hezbollah forces, and at times killing some of their top anti-ISIS leadership.

Concern is rising about the fate of Hadar and other Druze communities in Syria because of attacks by radical Islamist rebels.

Israeli officials neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the attack. The Israeli defence minister implicitly confirms the raid and reaffirms that Israel will not allow arms transfers to Hezbollah.

On Wednesday, three people were killed by an airstrike from an Israeli surveillance plane in the Quneitra province in southwestern Syria.

According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, two of the dead were Hezbollah members.

Analysts say some of the Israeli airstrikes in Syria have targeted weapons being transferred to Hezbollah by the Assad government.

An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports.

Hezbollah have been lending their extensive combat experience, not just in fighting alongside Assad’s forces but also in using their Iranian funding to train pro-Assad militias to fight against the rebel groups. The bombing reportedly happened in Khader, which is a town in the Syrian border along the countryside of Qunietra in the Syrian Golan Heights. He is suspected of planning multiple attacks against Israeli soldiers in the Golan Heights.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out two overnight strikes on Wednesday against its Palestinian and Lebanese adversaries in Syria and Lebanon.

The Al-Manar TV, an outlet of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, said the strike targeted a auto carrying members of the Syrian National Defense Committees near the predominantly Druze village of Hader.