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Hezbollah announced the killing of six of its fighters in a raid Jan. 18 which it accused the Israeli air force of carrying out against a group of its members on Syrian territory. The incident has preoccupied the Lebanese political scene and was expected to resound in the coming days, for more than one reason.
Hezbollah's statement on the death of its fighters in the raid comes as the first official acknowledgment by the party of its involvement in the ongoing military confrontations in the far south of Syria, specifically in the area adjacent to the Syrian border with Israel. The official statement by Hezbollah’s media relations office confirmed that its members died in the town of Mazraat al-Amal, in the Syrian region of Quneitra.
