Hezbollah has said an Israeli strike killed a senior commander from the group in south Lebanon, the Iran-backed movement’s second such casualty in recent weeks, according to AFP.

“A Hezbollah commander responsible for one of three sectors in south Lebanon was killed” in an “Israeli strike on a car in Tyre”, a source told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Hezbollah said later in a statement that “commander Mohammed Naameh Nasser”, also known as “Hajj Abu Naameh” had been killed, while another source close to the group confirmed he was killed in the strike in Tyre.

That source, also requesting anonymity, said he was the third senior Hezbollah commander to be killed in almost nine months of hostilities.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said “an enemy drone targeted a car” in Tyre, a coastal city around 20 kilometres from the border. The first source said Nasser had the same ranking as Taleb Abdallah, a commander killed in an Israeli strike last month.