Thousands of Hezbollah supporters have turned out for the funeral of a prominent fighter killed in a suspected Israeli helicopter strike in Syria’s Golan Heights on Sunday.<br /><br /> The Lebanese Shi’ite Islamist movement said Jihad Moughniyah and commander Mohammed Issa, known as Abu Issa, were among six of its members who died in the province of Quneitra. <br /><br /> Moughniyah’s late father Imad was implicated in several attacks on Israeli and Western targets. Hezbollah accused Israel of assassinating him in 2008.<br /><br /> Israeli media reports say it’s believed the young fighter headed a unit that was plotting to attack Israel.<br /><br /> Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have confirmed that an Iranian general was among those killed, saying he had been in Syria to advise forces loyal to President al-Assad.<br /><br /> Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria towards the end of the 1967 Middle East war.<br /><br /> Following the strike UN peacekeepers stepped up patrols along the border between Lebanon and Israel.<br /><br /> Hezbollah said its fig
