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A senior field commander with Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Lebanon overnight, sources on both sides reported on Monday. Ali Ahmed Hussein and two other fighters with the pro-Iranian armed group were killed in the southern Lebanon town of Sultaniyah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The Hezbollah movement confirmed the death of the commander, but gave no further details. A source in Sultaniyah confirmed to dpa that Hussein, nom de guerre Abbas Jaafar, was a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Brigade. Hezbollah announced that his funeral wo…