New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Israelis forces seized a local official with a Sunni Islamist group and an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas group in an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported.

Also on Monday, an Israeli drone struck a car in the southern Lebanese village of Yanouh, killing three people, including a 3-year-old child, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said, quoting the Health Ministry.

The Israeli military later said it struck Hezbollah artillery official Ahmad Salami. It said it was aware of a "claim that uninvolved civilians were killed" and that the case is under review.

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