Hezbollah suffers heavy losses in Syrian conflict: 104 killed according to watchdog
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104 Hezbollah militants have died in the past few months, while fighting in Reef Dimashq and Reef Homs, Syria, a watchdog reported.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition-aligned organisation monitoring the conflict, 46 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the last five days, during fierce fighting in Qusayr.
The watchdog reported that sources confirmed a further 20 Hezbollah members have been killed in battles around Qusayr this month, whilst the organisation lost a further 38 members during Autumn in Reef Qusayr and Reef Dimashq.
Hezbollah has been involved in the Syrian conflict for some time, with its fighters pouring into Syria to take part in the ongoing battle for Qusayr, a strategic town near the Lebanese border which links Damascus to Bashar al-Assad's coastal support base.
Hezbollah initially claimed that it would only get involved in the conflict to defend border villages, home to Lebanese Shi'ites, as well as holy Shi'ite shrines in Damascus.
Hezbollah denied any involvement in the Syrian conflict but the militia's involvement has been confirmed as a number of public funerals have taken place in recent days, for militants killed in the ongoing Qusayr fighting.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is not an organizaion. It is a one-man office, its head and only member, explicitly declares that he is struggling to depose the Syrian regime. So how on earth did the one-man office become an exclusive and objective source of news on Syria? There is no way we could verify what he reports, nor for him to verify what people who supposedly call him from syria say. How did he manage to know how many Hezbollah fighters were killed? usually it is the side that controls the territory vacated by its enemy that has a better idea of the number of enemy killed, and the FSA never managed to capture territory from Hezbollah, so how could they count the bodies, as it is the FSA usually the one that 'tactically' retreats and leaves behind the bodies of its fighters, not Hezbollah.
