Israel says it killed senior Hezbollah commander in airstrike on Lebanon

Claims Jaafar Khader Faour was responsible for initiating Hezbollah's first firing order on October 8 last year

Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that it had killed Jaafar Khader Faour, the commander overseeing Hezbollah’s missile and rocket operations in its Nasser unit.

The IDF reported on Saturday that Faour was targeted and killed in a precision airstrike by an Israeli Air Force fighter jet in the village of Jouaiyya in southern Lebanon, without telling the time of the operation, Xinhua news agency reported.