Hezbollah announced on Friday that seven of its fighters had been killed, bringing to 68 the number of members of the group who have died since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7.
It identified the seven fighters in a statement saying they were “martyrs on the road to Jerusalem”, an expression used by Hezbollah to mourn the death of its members killed since the start of the clashes on the Israeli-Lebanese border. In the statements announcing the death of fighters, Hezbollah generally states their place of birth, but does not specify where or when they were killed.
At least 90 people were killed on the Lebanese side in cross-border clashes, according to an AFP count, most of them Hezbollah fighters. Six soldiers and two civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
Earlier on Friday, the Israeli army said that it had struck an unnamed organization in Syria, claiming that it was behind a drone attack that crashed into a school in southern Israel on Thursday.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the Israeli strikes targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah. On Wednesday, Israeli air strikes killed three pro-Iranian fighters while targeting Hezbollah sites near the Syrian capital Damascus, according to the UK-based SOHR, which has an extensive network of sources in Syria. Israel struck Syria several times in October.
