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The car was not transporting weapons, the sources said. There
was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad movement, to which one of the sources said the
three Palestinian fighters belonged.
Local Syrian official Abdo al-Taqi told a Syrian radio station
that a car was targeted on Wednesday morning on the road between
the Syrian capital Damascus and Lebanon's capital Beirut, and
four people were killed.
Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other armed factions have launched
rockets and drones at Israel from southern Lebanon. The groups
have strong ties to Iran and to Syria's government and have
transported fighters and weapons through the porous
Syrian-Lebanese border.
Israel has not commented on the incident. While it takes
responsibility for strikes it carries out on Lebanon, it almost
never does the same for strikes it is accused of carrying out in
Syria.
Israel has targeted weapons shipments and other military
infrastructure in Syria for years and has stepped up its strikes
there since October, when the Gaza war began.
Wednesday's drone strike came hours after an Israeli airstrike
hit a pickup truck in northeast Lebanon near the Syrian border.
A security source told Reuters that the vehicle was carrying
military equipment, likely a damaged rocket launcher on the way
to be repaired.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam; Writing by Maya Gebeily; Editing by
Ros Russell)
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