Smoke billows from buildings in Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the city of Quneitra on November 18, 2014. (AFP Photo)

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Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:30PM

A new airstrike by the Israeli military on the occupied Golan Heights in Syria has killed a number of members of the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.

A military helicopter gunship operated by the Israeli army fired two missiles into Amal Farms in the strategic southwestern city of Quneitra, situated some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the capital, Damascus, on Sunday. Two remote-controlled reconnaissance drones buzzed overhead as the airborne assault took place.

Following the attack on Sunday, Hezbollah announced that several of its fighters were killed in the airstrike.

"A group of Hezbollah mujahedeen were martyred in a Zionist rocket attack in Quneitra, and their names will be revealed later," said a message on Hezbollah's al-Manar news channel, adding that they were killed during a field reconnaissance mission in the Amal Farms village of Quneitra.

Meanwhile, a Hezbollah official said Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Hezbollah's slain top military commander, Imad Mughniyeh, and a field commander were killed in the attack.

A Lebanese security source told The Daily Star that the strike destroyed one Hezbollah vehicle entirely and damaged another.

The Tel Aviv regime has carried out several airstrikes in Syria since the start of the nearly four-year-old foreign-backed militancy there.

Damascus says Tel Aviv and its Western allies are aiding al-Qaeda-linked militant groups operating inside Syria.

The Syrian army has repeatedly seized huge quantities of Israeli-made weapons and advanced military equipment from the foreign-backed militants inside Syria.

The country has been grappling with a foreign-backed deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence has so far claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 people, according to the UN.

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Group of Hizbullah Resistance Men Martyred due to ’Israeli’ Enemy’s Rocket Fire

Local Editor
Upon the martyrdom of a number of Hizbullah Resistance men due to "Israeli" helicopters' shelling in Quneitra[Syria], Hizbullah issued the following statement:

As a group of Hizbullah Resistance men were performing a field inspection to al-Amal farm in the Syrian Quneitra , they came under rocket fire from the "Israeli" enemy helicopters.
This led to the martyrdom of a number of Mujahideen brothers, whose names will be later announced after informing their noble families.

Source: Hizbullah Media Relations, Translated and Edited by website team

18-01-2015 | 19:01