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ByDiaaHadidandZeina Karam The Associated Press BEIRUT Beating their chests in anger and chant- ing "Death to Israel," thou- sands of mourners marched Monday in a funeral proces- sion for a prominent Hez- bollah fighter killed with five other members of the Shiite militant group in an Israeli airstrike in Syria's Golan Heights. Tehran added to the com- bustible mix by announc- ing that the strike — nei- ther confirmed nor denied by Israel — also killed a se- nior Iranian general, un- derscoring the extent of Iran and Hezbollah's deep involvement in the volatile area on Israel's doorstep. Sunday's deadly attack placed Hezbollah in a tough spot, as it weighs carefully how to respond. A signifi- cant retaliation risks draw- ing even tougher Israeli re- prisals, plunging Lebanon into yet another crippling war with the Jewish state for which there is very lit- tle appetite among Leba- nese public opinion. Stretched thin and neck- deep in Syria's civil war where the group's Shi- ite fighters are battling alongside President Bashar Assad's forces, Hezbollah must also decide whether it can afford to open up an- other front with Israel. Jihad Mughniyeh, who was buried Monday in south Beirut, did not hold a par- ticularly senior rank in the party. But he was the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hez- bollah operative widely con- sidered to have built Hezbol- lah's military operations in- frastructure and the second most revered figure inside Hezbollah. He was assassinated in 2008 in Damascus in a bombing that Hezbollah says was carried out by Is- rael's Mossad spy agency. The 25-year-old Mughni- yeh took on a more promi- nent role after the death of his father. He has been pho- tographed with Sheikh Has- san Nasrallah, the group's leader, and with the pow- erful Iranian Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, highlighting his prominence in the group. "For Hezbollah leaders, rank and file, and core sup- porters, the attack against Jihad Mughniyeh is akin to an attack against a member of their own family," said Randa Slim, a director at the Washington-based Mid- dle East Institute. "The fact that Hezbol- lah has not avenged Imad Mughniyeh's death to-date raises the bar for Nasral- lah and Hezbollah military leadership to react in a big way this time... irrespec- tive of the risks of an esca- lation," she said. Mughniyeh, who had re- cently been entrusted with overseeing operations in the Golan Heights, is the group's most prominent figure to die so far in Syria since Hezbollah joined the conflict next door in 2012, fighting on Assad's side against the Sunni-led re- bellion. The airstrike exposed Hezbollah's involvement in the Golan area — which is now host to an explosive mix of al-Qaida-linked Syr- ian rebels, Syrian govern- ment forces, Hezbollah op- eratives and Israeli soldiers, all operating in close prox- imity. Hezbollah's Manar tele- vision channel broadcast footage from the site of the airstrikes, showing a man- gled wreck of metal amid snow; nearby the footage showed radar installations and a military base that the channel said was in Israeli- controlled territory. Israeli officials had long expressed concern about Hezbollah activities along the border and blamed the group for a number of road- side bombings last year in the area. MIDDLE EAST Is ra el i st ri ke d ea ls p ai nf ul b lo w to H ez bo ll ah , Ir an THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hezbollah operative assassinated in 2008in Damascus and one of the six Hezbollah fighters killed in what the group said was an Israeli airstrike Sunday in the Golan Heights, during his funeral procession, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. By Ahmed Al-Haj The Associated Press SANAA, YEMEN Yemen's U.S.-backed leadership came under serious threat Mon- day as government troops clashed with Shiite rebels near the presidential pal- ace and a key military base in what one official called "a step toward a coup." The militants seized control of state media in fierce fighting that marked the biggest challenge yet to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi by the reb- els, known as Houthis, who swept down from their northern strongholds last year and captured the cap- ital in September. The violence threatened to undermine efforts by the U.S. and its allies to battle al-Qaida's Yemeni affiliate, which claimed responsibil- ity for the attack on a Paris satirical magazine this month and which Washing- ton has long viewed as the global network's most dan- gerous branch. The Houthis and forces loyal to Hadi have been in a tense standoff for months and the two sides traded blame for the outbreak of violence Monday. Witnesses said heavy machine gun fire could be heard as artillery shells struck around the presidential palace. Civil- ians in the area fled as col- umns of black smoke rose over the palace and sirens wailed throughout the city. Hadi, whose govern- ment has ceded control over nearly the entire cap- ital, doesn't live at the pal- ace, and extra soldiers and tanks deployed around his private residence, which is nearby. As fighting escalated Monday, the convoys of Ye- men's prime minister and a top official affiliated with the Houthis came under fire, and rebel fighters took over Yemen state television and its official SABA news agency, Information Minis- ter Nadia Sakkaf said. "This is a step toward a coup and it is targeting the state's legitimacy," Sakkaf told The Associated Press. Cease-fire negotiations continued throughout the day by a presidential com- mittee that included the interior and defense min- isters, a presidential aide and a tribal sheik close to the Houthis. By the end of the day, a tenuous truce ap- peared to be holding. The announcement of a cease-fire came after wit- nesses said the rebels had seized control of strate- gic hills that overlook both the palace and the military camp south of it. There was no government confirma- tion of the loss of territory. At least nine people were killed in the fighting and 67 were injured, Yemen's dep- uty health minister, Nasser Baoum, told the AP. Yemen's Western and in- ternational allies, including the U.S and Saudi Arabia, called for steps to imple- ment and consolidate the cease-fire, expressing their support for Hadi. "We reject the use of vi- olence by those who seek to overturn Yemen's politi- cal transition for their own interests, and fully support President Hadi as the le- gitimately-mandated pres- ident," a statement on the U.S. Embassy website said. CIVIL WAR Yemen truce begins a er Shiite rebels battle troops, seize media HANI MOHAMMED — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Houthi Shiite Yemeni chant slogans during clashes near the presidential palace in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday. Red Bluff Community Resource Guide N EWS D AILY REDBLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 PublishDate:Thursday,February26,2015 2015 20,000 + readership! Full color, gloss magazine Ad space reservations deadline: Thur., Feb. 5, 2015 ReserveyourSpaceToday! Gayla Eckels: (530) 737-5044 geckels@redbluffdailynews.com Suzy Noble: (530) 737-5056 snoble@redbluffdailynews.com • OnlineversionofthisspecialpublicationispostedonRedBluffDailyNews.com,all year long, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! 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