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IDF says Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon drone strike
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
A Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike last night in southern Lebanon, the IDF says.
The target of the strike in the town of Barish was Yassin Izz a-Din, commander of Hezbollah’s rocket artillery unit in the Litani River sector, according to the military.
The IDF says he advanced numerous rocket attacks on northern Israel during the war, and was involved in “attempts to restore Hezbollah’s artillery forces.”
The IDF adds that his actions “constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
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