Hamiyah said: “Al-Qaa crossing has been out of service yet Israeli raid in Syrian lands“Hundreds of meters away from the Syrian security office” at the crossing known from the Syrian side as Jose.
He explained that the raid cut off the movement of cars and trucks, leaving only one major crossing between the two countries in service.
And it was Israeli army On the fourth of this month, the Al-Masnaa border area in eastern Lebanon was bombed, cutting off the main border crossing between… Lebanon and Syriaafter tens of thousands of Lebanese and Syrian refugees had taken it to escape the Israeli raids on several areas in Lebanon.
The Israeli army said at the time that it had destroyed an underground tunnel The Lebanese-Syrian borderHe was Hezbollah He uses it to “carry a lot of means of war” for use in the South LebanonHe warned that he “will not allow the smuggling of these weapons and will not hesitate to act if he is forced to do so.”
The raid created a very large hole in the ground, according to what AFP photographers saw. The situation has worsened after new strikes over the past few days, making the Lebanese authorities unable to rehabilitate it in preparation for its opening.
Dozens are still crossing the border on foot.
The Masnaa crossing is Lebanon’s main gateway by land to the Arab world, through which exported goods and agricultural products pass, in addition to the movement of passengers to and from Syria.
Since the start of the latest Israeli escalation against Hezbollah strongholds on September 23, nearly half a million people, most of them Syrians, have fled Lebanon towards Syria, according to the Lebanese authorities.
