LAF, UNIFIL patrol Lebanon southern border after Israeli strike in Syria

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19-01-2015 | 04:02
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LAF, UNIFIL patrol Lebanon southern border after Israeli strike in Syria
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LAF, UNIFIL patrol Lebanon southern border after Israeli strike in Syria
The Lebanese side of the border with Israel appeared calm on Monday (January 19) with usual peacekeeping and Lebanese army patrols, a day after an Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a Hezbollah commander.     

The strike in Syria's Quneitra province, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights also killed the son of the group's late military leader Imad Moughniyah, Hezbollah said, in a major blow that could lead to reprisal attacks.      

The strike hit a convoy carrying Jihad Moughniyah and commander Mohamad Issa, known as Abu Issa.       

It comes just days after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said frequent Israeli strikes in Syria were a major aggression, that the group was stronger than before and that Syria and its allies had the right to respond.       

Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, has been fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria's four-year war.     

Iran's semi-official Tabnak news site said several of its Revolutionary Guards had also been killed in the attack, without giving further details. State-run Iranian television said the identity of the "martyrs" could not be confirmed.      

The funeral of Jihad Moughniyah is set to be held later on Monday in the southern suburbs of Beirut. He will be buried next to his father, Hezbollah said.         


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