A stream of refugees fleeing Lebanon to Syria crossed a narrow makeshift bridge on foot Sunday in the Qusair area of Syria’s Homs province after the official border crossing was put out of commission by an Israeli strike two days earlier. This incident has left only three functioning crossings between the two countries, which share a border 375 kilometers long.
In late September, an Israeli airstrike hit the border crossing of Matraba in Lebanon’s northeast, forcing it to close. A few weeks later, a strike on Masnaa, the main crossing between the two countries, also put it out of service. The Jousieh crossing was the latest to be struck on Friday.
