Tel Aviv, Jan 10 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that it has killed a senior commander of Hezbollah responsible for several drone attacks on Israel.

The IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari in a press statement confirmed that the Hezbollah commander Ali Hussein Barji was killed by an Israeli air strike on Tuesday evening.

Israel also said that the slain commander was in charge of the drone unit of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and was instrumental in several drone attacks on Israel, including the one on the IDF base in northern Israel on Tuesday morning.