Hizbullah Field Commander Nicknamed 'Sayyed Nasrallah' Killed in Syria
The southern town of Rishknaniyeh in the Tyre district on Thursday held a funeral for a slain Hizbullah military commander nicknamed “Sayyed Nasrallah” in reference to the group's secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
“Wissam Sharafeddine, the most prominent Hizbullah field commander in Damascus' countryside, has been killed,” Future TV reported.
Sharafeddine is “nicknamed Sayyed Nasrallah and hails from the town of Rishknaniyeh, east of Tyre,” it added.
For its part, the pro-Hizbullah bintjbeil.org website confirmed the death of Sharafeddine, saying he was killed “while performing his sacred jihadist duty.”
On Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 13 Hizbullah fighters have been killed since Friday in ongoing clashes with Islamist rebels in the al-Marj area in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta region.
Rebels in Eastern Ghouta, east of Damascus, are trying to break the army siege on opposition areas there.
More than 200 fighters on both sides have been killed in the fighting.
"Hizbullah is leading the fighting. Hundreds of its fighters have been deployed to Eastern Ghouta," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence France Presse.
| Copyright © 2012 Naharnet.com. All Rights Reserved. | https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/107677 |