Israeli drone kills 2 near Syrian frontier- Hezbollah’s TV

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

The IDF said it does not comment on foreign media reports. The attack was carried out by Israeli aircraft, possibly an unmanned drone, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

According to a report on the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen news portal, an Israeli air force jet struck a auto in the countryside of Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights, killing three people.

The official television station of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah said on Wednesday that “two members of Syria’s National Defense Forces were killed when an Israeli drone targeted their auto at the entrance of Hader, in Quneitra Province”. The two Hezbollah activists were later reportedly killed, Haaretz said, citing the German news agency DPA. The Britain-based watchdog, which monitors Syria’s four-year-old conflict, said two members of Hezbollah and three pro-government militiamen were slain.

A spokesman for a Syrian rebel group operating in the same area confirmed the attack. They often establish a presence in areas where state military forces are weak or do not exist.

In a newsflash, state television quoted a military source as saying Israeli planes had at 3:15 p.m. (1215 GMT) struck a base belonging to the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), a faction that backs President Bashar Assad.