Beirut/Jerusalem, March 26 -- A senior military commander of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, according to a Lebanese security source on Tuesday.
The source told Xinhua that "an Israeli drone fired an air-to-ground missile at a civilian vehicle ... in (the village of) Qa'qaiyat al-Jisr, killing one person and setting the car ablaze."
The body, transported by civil defense teams to a hospital in Nabatieh, was identified as a Hezbollah military commander named Hassan Kamal Halawi, the unnamed source said.
However, Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center said in a statement that the dead person was "a civilian, according to initial reports."
Meanwhile, the ...