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An Israeli drone attack in Lebanon’s Hermel district, near the Syrian border, has wounded six people, including five Syrians and one Lebanese national. The Lebanese health ministry has confirmed the injuries following the airstrike, which targeted a vehicle.
The Lebanese health ministry confirmed that the six wounded individuals were receiving medical attention following the drone strike. Israel has conducted hundreds of strikes in Syria since December 2024, amid ongoing tensions with both Syria and Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed that six individuals, including five Syrians, were wounded in the drone attack, marking a significant violation of the previously established ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has condemned the attack, reiterating calls for Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territory and urging the international community to uphold the 1974 agreement for a UN-supervised separation zone.
What remains unclear — It is not specified whether there were any casualties among those targeted in the drone attack described by Israel’s military.
Israeli drone attack injures six in Lebanon near Syrian border
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Five Syrians and one Lebanese wounded in latest Israeli attack, officials say.
Published On 10 Oct 202610 Oct 2026
Published On 10 Oct 202610 Oct 2026An Israeli drone attack has wounded six people in Lebanon’s Hermel district, close to the Syrian border, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
The ministry said on Friday that the six wounded included five Syrian nationals, two of them women, and one Lebanese.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that the drone attack targeted a car.
It added the area has largely been spared such attacks since an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was agreed in June.
Israel’s military claimed it struck “a Syrian terrorist” who “operated under the direction of the Iranian regime”, alleging that the man “planned and advanced attacks” against Israeli forces in Syria’s southern territory.
Since the ouster of longtime Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against Syria. It has sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone that had separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan since 1974, and has carried out repeated incursions deeper into Syrian territory, sometimes seizing residents.
Israel has also continued to attack Lebanon since a ceasefire with Hezbollah was agreed in June.
It has vowed to keep troops in so-called security zones along its border in both Syria and Lebanon.
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the UN General Assembly last month: “We reject Israeli attempts to impose a fait accompli. We reject their aggressions, which undermine peace and security.”
He said Israel had carried out “500 air strikes, more than 1,200 incursions and 300 detentions” in Syria.
He also called for Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territory and for the international community to commit to a 1974 agreement that created a UN-supervised separation zone between Israeli and Syrian forces.