IAF kills PIJ terrorist Faris Qasim, three others on Syrian-Lebanese border

The Israel Air Force killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist Faris Qasim on the Syrian-Lebanese border, the military announced on August 28, Report informs referring to The Jerusalem Post.

The IDF stated that Qasim, belonging to the organization's Operations Division, had been responsible for the advancement for its operational plans in both Syria and Lebanon and for enlisting Palestinian terrorists into the ranks of Hezbollah.

An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing through a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and one member of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, Reuters reported earlier, citing sources.

According to the sources, the car was not transporting weapons. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organizations, to which one of the sources said the three Palestinian fighters belonged.

Local Syrian official Abdo al-Taqi told a Syrian radio station that a car was targeted on Wednesday morning on the road between the Syrian capital, Damascus, and Lebanon's capital, Beirut, and four people were killed.