BEIRUT, November 23. /TASS/ Israel has hit the Jusiyah crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border, the SANA news agency reported.

The Jusiyah checkpoint is located on the border with Lebanon in the al-Qusayr area in the Syrian Homs governorate.

The agency cited the checkpoint’s chief as saying that serious damage was done to the facility. According to the Sham FM radio station, at least four strikes were delivered on the area around the checkpoint.

The Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on October 25 that Israel that the Jusiyah crossing had been closed after Israel’s shelling attack. On November 2, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that this checkpoint is used by the Lebanese and Syrians who enter Syria from Lebanon.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 240 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel is also delivering strikes on certain areas in Syria and Lebanon.