Israel killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Wednesday, according to two sources, in an attack in Beirut, Lebanon that Lebanon's Health Ministry said killed seven people.
Lebanese security sources and a Hezbollah source told AFP that the senior commander in question was Youssef Hashem, responsible for the group's military affairs in Iraq and was in a tent when Israel attacked, quoted by Al Arabiya (2/4).
The Israeli military said Hashem was the commander of Hezbollah for the southern Lebanese front.
Lebanon was dragged into the Middle East war in early March when Tehran-backed Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel in retaliation for a US-Israeli attack that killed Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Israel then responded by launching a massive attack on the entire Lebanese territory and later resumed ground operations.
Meanwhile, a source close to Hezbollah said Hashem was "the highest-ranking official to be targeted since the start of the war."
Another Hezbollah member, Mohammad Baqir al-Nabulsi, was also killed in the attack in the Jnah area of Beirut, the group said.
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