'Israel strike' kills Hezbollah men in Syria's Golan Heights

 

 Hezbollah has strong support in Lebanon

An Israeli air strike has killed several Hezbollah fighters in the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights, the Lebanese militant movement says.

Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said they were killed in Quneitra province "during a field reconnaissance mission".
One of those killed was Jihad Mughniyeh, son of a top military commander killed in 2008, sources said.
Israel said it would not comment. Hezbollah militants have been supporting President Bashar al-Assad.
The four-year Syrian conflict has left some 76,000 people dead, activists say.
Israel has conducted several air strikes inside Syria since the conflict began.
They were said to be aimed at preventing the transfer of stockpiles of rockets from the Syrian government to Hezbollah.

Israel fought a 34-day war with Hezbollah in 2006.

Al-Manar TV said the names of the fighters would be released after their families had been informed.
However, media sources said that among those killed, in addition to Mughniyeh, was Mohammed Issa, a Hezbollah field commander.
Hezbollah blamed Israel for killing Imad Mughniyeh in a bombing in Damascus in 2008. Israel denied it.
Mughniyeh was widely believed to be behind a wave of Western hostage-taking in Lebanon during the 1980s.
The Golan Heights, a rocky plateau in south-western Syria, was seized by Israel from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 Middle East War.
The two countries remain technically in a state of war, and UN observers are deployed to monitor a 70km-long (45-mile) demilitarised zone.

-culled from bbc.co.uk