An Israeli aggression on Friday morning near Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria cut off a road linking the two countries that was being used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days.
Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh told Reuters news agency the attack hit inside Lebanese territory near the border crossing, creating a four-meter (12-feet) wide crater.
⚡️BREAKING: The Israeli airstrike on the vicinity of the Lebanese Masnaa border crossing led to the closure of the international road between Lebanon and Syria.
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More than 300,000 people – mostly Syrian – crossed from Lebanon into Syria over the last 10 days to escape escalating Israeli bombardment, according to Lebanese government statistics.
A United Nations refugee agency official said on Friday that most of Lebanon’s nearly 900 shelters were full and that people fleeing Israeli attacks were increasingly sleeping out in the open.
“Most of the nearly 900 government established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity,” UNHCR’s Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing.
Source: Agencies
