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1st LD: Israeli strike targeted Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria: TV

Xinhua, January 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

A group of the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters were the target of the Israeli strike that targeted a southern Syrian town on Sunday, the Lebanese al-Manar TV reported.

The TV said the Hezbollah fighters were surveying the town of Mazrat al-Amal in Syria's southern al-Qunaitera province, bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It added that the names of the "martyrs" will soon be aired.

Meanwhile, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of the late field commander of Hezbollah, Emad Mughniyeh, was killed in the Israeli attack.

Emad Mughniyeh was a senior member of Hezbollah. He was generally understood to have been a principal leader and operative for a number of years within Hezbollah's military, intelligence, and security apparatuses. He is also believed to have been among the founders of Hezbollah in the 1980s.

Mughniyeh was killed on Feb. 12, 2008 by a car bomb that detonated as he passed by on foot around 11:00 p.m. local time in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of the capital Damascus. Endit