Mourners Honor Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Strikes

Mourners attend the funeral of Hezbollah fighters who were killed in the Qusayr area following Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway.

A war monitor said at least six fighters were killed in Israeli strikes in Syria near the Lebanese border, in an area where Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group holds sway.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "Israeli strikes targeted two positions of groups in the Homs region", including "a Hezbollah site in the Qusayr area" near the border where "six fighters were killed".

The Observatory did not specify their nationalities.

A Hezbollah source said that at least one fighter from the group was killed in Israeli strikes in the Qusayr area.

Israel rarely comments on individual strikes in Syria but has repeatedly said it will not allow its arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence there.

The Observatory said an Israeli drone strike near the Lebanese border targeted a vehicle carrying "a Hezbollah commander and his companion", without reporting casualties.

Hezbollah did not announce any deaths among its ranks.

On May 9, Israeli strikes on Syria targeted facilities belonging to Iraq's Al-Nujaba armed movement, the Observatory and the group said, with Damascus saying an unidentified building was attacked.

The Israeli military has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly targeting army positions and fighters including from Lebanon's Hezbollah group.

But the strikes increased after Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip began on October 7, when the Palestinian militant group launched an unprecedented attack against Israel.

Syria's war has killed more than half a million people and displaced millions more since it erupted in 2011.