The Hezbollah terrorist group responded for the first time to airstrikes on Syria attributed to Israel this week.
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In a statement, the pro-Iranian group said: "The Zionist planes violated Lebanese sovereignty anew and struck Syrian lands through our air space in the shadow of international organizations' silence. What happened last night is an aggression on the part of the Zionist enemy's aircraft on Lebanese and Syrian soil."
The Shiite group continued: "We stand with our people in … the villages damaged as a result of the recent Zionist aggression. We ask Allah to protect Lebanon from the Zionist aggression that can only be withstood through resistance.
The organization noted it was only "divine providence" that only material damage was sustained and a massacre did not take place.
Syrian media outlets reported an Israeli airstrike in the al-Qusair area in the Homs province early Thursday. It was the second reported Israeli airstrike in Syria this week.
According to the reports, Syrian air defenses engaged fighter jets that entered the country's airspace from Lebanon.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor group, said the attack targeted military installations belonging to Hezbollah as well as other pro-Iranian militia, and members of Iran's clandestine Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at the al-Sharyat military airport east of Homs city.
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