A Syrian officer who defected from the army and who is currently on a visit in Abu Dhabi , United Arab e Emirates revealed to Kuwaiti newspaper al Seyasseh that more than 120 Hezbollah fighters and more than 40 members of the Basij militia of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were killed during clashes with the the Free Syrian Amy during the past three months.

The officer said that most of the clashes took place in the city of Homs and Damascus suburbs.

The officer added that the bodies of Hezbollah and Basij fighters were transferred in stages to Tehran on military aircraft of the Syrian regime in order to conceal the involvement of Hezbollah and Iran in the massacres against the Syrian people

The officer also revealed that tens of Hezbollah wounded and disabled fighters are currently being treated at Syrian hospitals in Damascus and northern Syria.

The officer told the daily that the Free Syrian Amy has a list of the Hezbollah and Basij fighters that were killed and wounded in Syria

The officer also told the paper that one of the Hezbollah fighters that was killed last October is related to the wife of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and another fighter is related to Hezbollah MP Hussein Hajj Hassan. Their bodies were transported to Lebanon through an illegal border crossing by the Palestinian PFLP-GC group of Ahmad Jibril and were buried quietly in south Lebanon