Lebanon Reports Six Wounded After Drone Attack Near Hermel

Annahar independently reported an attempted strike on a vehicle near the Syrian border. A later Lebanese health ministry statement put the injury toll at six.

Six people were wounded in an Israeli attack near Hosh al Sayyed Ali in Lebanon's Hermel district on 9 October 2026, according to a Lebanese health ministry statement carried by Annahar. The newspaper's correspondent separately reported that a drone had attempted to strike a vehicle near the Lebanese border with Syria.

The accounts add detail to the initial report circulated by Al Mayadeen, which did not identify a target or provide a casualty count. The later reporting describes a vehicle as the apparent target and gives an official Lebanese injury toll.

Correspondent says missile missed the vehicle

Annahar's correspondent said the vehicle was a jeep and that the missile did not hit it. LBCI also carried a National News Agency report of a drone targeting a vehicle in Hosh al Sayyed Ali.

Neither account identified the occupants or established their affiliation. The report of a missed vehicle therefore does not identify a person targeted by Israel or explain the purpose of the operation.

Health ministry gives an injury toll

Lebanon's Health Emergency Operations Center said the six wounded included five Syrian nationals, two of them women, and one Lebanese national. Its statement attributed the attack to Israel and placed it in the vicinity of the town, within Hermel district.

The material reviewed did not specify how the injuries occurred, their severity or the extent of property damage. A missile missing the reported vehicle and people being injured nearby are separate elements of the accounts, rather than evidence that the area escaped harm.

A border location, an unannounced target

Hosh al Sayyed Ali lies near the Lebanese and Syrian border, in the wider Hermel area. That geographic setting identifies where the reported attack occurred; it does not establish who was travelling through it.

No corresponding IDF statement was located in the checks conducted for this report. The available account therefore rests on Annahar's reporting, the National News Agency report carried by LBCI and the Lebanese ministry's casualty statement, with no announced Israeli explanation of the target.