Lebanon’s Shi’ite group Hezbollah held on Tuesday a funeral for Ghazi Dawi who was killed in the Israeli air strike in the Syrian province of Quneitra.
Dawi’s funeral was held in his hometown, the southern town of Khiam, while that of Hassan Ibrahim was held in the Nabatiyeh town of Yahmar al-Chqif and Mohammad Issa in the Arabsalim town.
Hezbollah claims Israel carried out Sunday's strike on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, which killed a prominent Hezbollah fighter, a senior Iranian general, and five other Hezbollah members.
The prominent fighter killed, Jihad Mughniyeh, was the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hezbollah operative widely considered to have built Hezbollah's military operations infrastructure and the second most revered figure inside Hezbollah.
He was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus in a bombing that Hezbollah says was carried out by Israel's Mossad spy agency. Thousands of mourners marched in a Beirut funeral procession Monday for Jihad Mughniyeh, chanting "Death to Israel."
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