Israeli says senior Hezbollah figure killed in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it killed a senior Hezbollah official in strikes carried out on Lebanon on Saturday, reports BBC.

Nabil Qaouk - head of Hezbollah's preventive security council and a key member of its central council - was killed by fighter jets yesterday, the IDF says in a statement.

Hezbollah has not provided any comment on Qaouk's fate.

The IDF described Qaouk as being "close to the top" of Hezbollah and went on to say he was "directly engaged in promoting terrorist plots against the State of Israel and its citizens"._Agencies.