An Israeli air force raid on areas bordering Syria in eastern Lebanon led to the blocking of road traffic through the Al-Qaa checkpoint. This was announced by Libya's acting Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamieh, in a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter).
According to him, the Baalbek-Homs highway now remains the only unblocked artery that connects the eastern regions of Lebanon with Syria. On October 4, Israeli airstrikes led to the destruction of the road in a narrow gorge north of the El-Masnaa checkpoint on the Lebanese-Syrian border, in As a result, traffic on the Beirut-Damascus international highway was stopped. The main flow of refugees from Lebanon was sent along it to Syrian territory.