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Hezbollah buries dozens of fighters in south Lebanon
Agence France-Presse . Majdal Selm, Lebanon 18 July, 2026, 21:17
A man waving a Hezbollah flag walks over open graves near a portrait of a Hezbollah fighter killed during clashes with the Israeli army drive during a mass funeral in the southern Lebanese village of Majdel Selm on July 18, 2026. | AFP photo
Hezbollah held a mass funeral for dozens of people, most of them fighters killed in the most recent fighting with Israel, in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Selm on Saturday.
The Iran-backed Shia group, which drew Lebanon into the Middle East war by attacking Israel on March 2, does not reveal the number of fighters it has lost.
But it has organised several funerals during the current lull in fighting, which followed the June 17 signing of a US-Iran memorandum of understanding.
In the heavily-damaged village, Hezbollah buried 44 people, 39 of them fighters and four civilians said to have been killed in Israeli operations, and one man who died of natural causes.
An AFP correspondent saw trucks carrying the coffins to the burial site as weeping women held portraits of the dead and of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strikes on Tehran in February.
Many Lebanese have been unable to bury their loved ones in their home towns while the fighting was still raging.
Shia Muslim rites provide for temporary burial when circumstances prevent a proper funeral or the deceased cannot be buried where they wished.
‘You are invited to participate in the blessed funeral of Majdal Selm’s martyrs,’ read an announcement to Hezbollah’s supporters, with the names of the dead.
A previous announcement widely shared online had 129 names, but the Majdal Selm municipality dismissed the figure as ‘inaccurate and baseless’.
The funeral took place as Lebanese President Joseph Aoun headed to Washington where he is expected to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump following the latest round of Israel-Lebanon talks, which wrapped up earlier this week. Politics(Right)
Israel and Lebanon began US-sponsored negotiations in April aimed at reaching a peace deal and permanently ending the Israel-Hezbollah war.
On June 26, they reached a framework agreement in Washington under which the Israeli military is to withdraw from southern Lebanon and the Lebanese army is to deploy, starting with two ‘pilot zones’.
The agreement is contingent on the disarmament of Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which has flatly rejected both the deal and the negotiations.
Agence France-Presse . Majdal Selm, Lebanon 18 July, 2026, 21:17
A man waving a Hezbollah flag walks over open graves near a portrait of a Hezbollah fighter killed during clashes with the Israeli army drive during a mass funeral in the southern Lebanese village of Majdel Selm on July 18, 2026. | AFP photo
Hezbollah held a mass funeral for dozens of people, most of them fighters killed in the most recent fighting with Israel, in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Selm on Saturday.
The Iran-backed Shia group, which drew Lebanon into the Middle East war by attacking Israel on March 2, does not reveal the number of fighters it has lost.
But it has organised several funerals during the current lull in fighting, which followed the June 17 signing of a US-Iran memorandum of understanding.
In the heavily-damaged village, Hezbollah buried 44 people, 39 of them fighters and four civilians said to have been killed in Israeli operations, and one man who died of natural causes.
An AFP correspondent saw trucks carrying the coffins to the burial site as weeping women held portraits of the dead and of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strikes on Tehran in February.
Many Lebanese have been unable to bury their loved ones in their home towns while the fighting was still raging.
Shia Muslim rites provide for temporary burial when circumstances prevent a proper funeral or the deceased cannot be buried where they wished.
‘You are invited to participate in the blessed funeral of Majdal Selm’s martyrs,’ read an announcement to Hezbollah’s supporters, with the names of the dead.
A previous announcement widely shared online had 129 names, but the Majdal Selm municipality dismissed the figure as ‘inaccurate and baseless’.
The funeral took place as Lebanese President Joseph Aoun headed to Washington where he is expected to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump following the latest round of Israel-Lebanon talks, which wrapped up earlier this week. Politics(Right)
Israel and Lebanon began US-sponsored negotiations in April aimed at reaching a peace deal and permanently ending the Israel-Hezbollah war.
On June 26, they reached a framework agreement in Washington under which the Israeli military is to withdraw from southern Lebanon and the Lebanese army is to deploy, starting with two ‘pilot zones’.
The agreement is contingent on the disarmament of Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which has flatly rejected both the deal and the negotiations.
