Israeli army says it killed Hezbollah fighter in southwestern Syria

The Israeli army said Wednesday that it eliminated a member of Hezbollah's “Golan Network” in southwestern Syria in an airstrike.

“The army struck and eliminated Adham Jahout, a member of Hezbollah's ‘Golan Network,' Hezbollah's cell in Syria, in the area of Quneitra,” a statement said.

The statement said that Jahout “relayed information from Syrian regime sources to Hezbollah and transmitted intelligence gathered on the Syrian front to facilitate operations against Israel in the Golan Heights.”

There was no immediate response from Syria or Hezbollah to the Israeli military's statement, but Syria's state news agency, SANA, quoted a source in Quneitra's police command as saying that one internal security officer was killed and another was wounded due to an Israeli strike on the eastern entrance of Quneitra city, without providing further details.

Israel has been conducting airstrikes in Syria since 2011 against government forces, Iranian troops and Hezbollah targets.