Israeli warplanes pounded a road near a Lebanese customs post in south Lebanon on Saturday, local TV reported.

The road, linking border towns of Al Masnaa and Jdeidet Yabus, has been destroyed in the Israeli air raid, Future TV reported.

The highway, about 1 km from the border with Syria, is also a main road to the Syrian capital Damascus. Traffic in both directions had been stopped.

The report said that the Syrian-Lebanese border crossing at Al Masnaa had been closed after the Israeli airstrike.

It was the first time that the crossing was shut down since violence between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerillas broke out on July 12.

There was no immediate report of any casualties.

Source: Xinhua