Israeli strike kills 10 Syrians in southern Lebanon, health ministry says Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli air strike on Saturday in southern Lebanon killed 10 Syrian civilians, as the Israeli military reported hitting weapons stores of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement. "The significance of this [attack] is that you're seeing a similar number of civilians and what that lets you know is there’s going to be an escalation and indeed that have been dozens of rockets that have been fired into Israel in the hour since we’ve learnt that news”, FRANCE 24’s Irris Makler said, reporting from Jerusalem.