Israel kills six Hezbollah fighters in Syria

Israel killed six Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in air strikes against a southern Syrian town Sunday, media reports said.

"An Israeli helicopter fired two rockets from inside the occupied territories Sunday toward the Mazrat al-Amal town in al-Quniatera," Xinhua quoted Syria's national TV as saying in a report.

It said that a child was critically wounded in the attack, without gining further details.

The militant group's media body confirmed the death of its members in Israel's air strikes in a statement.

"The strike resulted in the martyrdom of a number of jihadi brothers, whose names will be announced later, after informing their honorable families," it said.

Earlier, the Lebanese al-Manar TV said Israel launched air strikes on the Hezbollah fighters surveying the town of Mazrat al-Amal in Syria's southern al-Qunaitera province, bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Meanwhile, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of the late field commander of Hezbollah, Emad Mughniyeh, was killed in the Israeli attack.

Emad Mughniyeh was a senior member of Hezbollah. He is believed to have been among the founders of Hezbollah in the 1980s.

Mughniyeh was killed February 12, 2008 by a car bomb that detonated as he passed by in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood of Damascus.

Throughout Syria's long-running conflict, Hezbollah fighters fought alongside the Syrian government troops on several fronts across the country.

Israel has also repeatedly targeted several Syrian positions over the country's nearly four-year-old conflict, saying that it has been trying to target weapon depots or convoys bound to Hezbollah.