(Reuters) Laila Bassam - Hizbullah has lost 47 fighters to Israeli strikes at Lebanon's frontier since Oct. 7. Most of its fighters have been killed in Israeli drone strikes. "The technical superiority of the Israeli drones is making Hizbullah pay the price of this number of fighters," said Nabil Boumonsef, deputy editor-in-chief at Lebanon's Annahar. A source familiar with Hizbullah's thinking told Reuters that Hizbullah had made "arrangements to reduce the number of martyrs." Hizbullah unveiled its surface-to-air missile capability for the first time, declaring on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone. Since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war, Hizbullah's attacks have been calibrated to contain clashes to the border zone. Israel has said it has no interest in a conflict on its northern frontier, where seven of its soldiers have been killed. While Hamas and a Lebanese Sunni Islamist faction, Jama'a Islamiya, have fired rockets into Israel, Hizbullah itself has refrained from firing rockets. Instead, its fighters have been firing at visible targets across the frontier with Israel, using guided anti-tank missiles.
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