Tel Aviv [Israel], April 19 (ANI/TPS): The IDF announced tonight that it has eliminated a Hezbollah operative in a drone strike in southern Lebanon's city of Ayta ash-Shab earlier today.

According to the announcement the operative was involved in terror activities.

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Lebanese media report that he was a municipal police officer on his way home from a funeral. Ayta ash-Shab is a Shiite city known to be a Hezbollah stronghold. (ANI/TPS)

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