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Israel kills Hezbollah field commander in Lebanon strike

Lebanese soldiers cordon off the site of an Israeli drone attack targeting a vehicle in the town of as-Sawairi, in central Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in late March [File: Hassan Jarrah/AFP]

The Israeli military says it has killed a Hezbollah commander in an overnight air strike in Lebanon, as the United Nations warns that shelling was spreading and urges a halt to the cycle of violence.

Ali Ahmad Hussein of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force was “eliminated” by Israeli jets in the area of as-Sultaniyah in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement on Monday, accusing him of attacks against Israeli targets in recent months.

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