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A Hezbollah field commander was killed in an Israeli drone strike in south Lebanon on Tuesday night, Israel and the Lebanese group confirmed on Wednesday. In a statement, the Iran-backed Shia group mourned Hussein Ibrahim Makki, born in 1969, who was from the southern village of Beit Yahoun. His role in Hezbollah was not identified by the group, but the Israeli military says he was a senior commander in Hezbollah’s Southern Front unit. The Israeli army published footage of the strike which hit Makki’s car on the road connecting the coastal city of Tyre to its suburb of Haouch. The Arabic-langu…