Israeli drone attack wounds six in Lebanon near Syria border

What the report says

An Israeli drone strike wounded six people in Lebanon’s Hermel district near the Syrian border, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, as reported by Al Jazeera on Friday, October 10, 2026. The ministry said the injured included five Syrians, among them two women, and one Lebanese national. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the drone hit a car.

The attack comes in an area that the agency said had largely been spared such incidents since an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was reached in June. Israel’s military said it had targeted a Syrian man it described as operating under Iranian direction and accused him of planning attacks against Israeli forces in southern Syria. Al Jazeera noted that this claim could not be independently verified from the material provided.

The report places the strike within a wider pattern of Israeli operations in Syria and Lebanon since late 2024. Al Jazeera said Israel has continued air attacks in Syria after the removal of Bashar al-Assad and has also carried out repeated strikes in Lebanon despite the ceasefire with Hezbollah. In the broader regional context, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has recently urged Israeli withdrawal from Syrian territory and called for respect for the 1974 separation agreement, according to remarks cited by the outlet.