The Israel Defense Force (IDF) carried out a strike on southern Lebanon, killing a regional commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The IDF identified the commander as Ismail Youssef Baz, saying he was a senior official of Hezbollah's military wing, with a rank "equivalent to the rank of brigadier general." He was killed in the Ain Baal area in Lebanon.
A source close to the group confirmed the news to the French AFP news agency.
"The field commander in charge of the Naqura region has been martyred in an Israeli strike," the source told AFP. Naqura lies a few kilometers south of Ain Baal.
The Lebanese state agency NNA also reported one death in an Israeli strike on a car in Ain Baal.
Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon. Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Germany and several Sunni Arab countries, while the EU lists its armed wing as a terrorist group.
