Beirut/Jerusalem, April 18 -- A Hezbollah member was killed on Friday in an Israeli drone strike in the city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities and a security source.

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center under Lebanon's Health Ministry confirmed in a statement that "an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle on the Sidon-Ghazieh road, resulting in one fatality."

A Lebanese security source told Xinhua that the victim was identified as Mohammad Jaafar Mannah Asaad Abdallah, a Hezbollah operative from the southern border town of Khiam.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in a statement that the Israeli Air Forces conducted a precise strike in Sidon and killed Hezbollah militant Abdallah. ...