An Israeli airstrike that targeted Hezbollah commanders in a Beirut suburb on Friday killed at least 37 people, including three children and seven women, the Lebanese health ministry said, and rescuers were still searching on Saturday for people missing in the rubble.

Hezbollah reported that its top commander Ahmed Wahbi was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut suburbs. The strike also took out Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah's Radwan unit. In retaliation, Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel.

In a statement, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Aqil, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was killed alongside senior operatives in the group’s operations staff and other Radwan commanders.

Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital,

This week saw a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah Hezbollah members carry the coffin of their comrade who was killed when a handheld device exploded,

Israel's military says two Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including seven women and three

Ahmed Wahbi, who oversaw the military operations of Hezbollah's Radwan special forces unit, has been identified as the second top commander killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Hezbollah confirms two of its senior commanders have been killed in an Israeli strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says its forces "conducted a targeted strike in Beirut".

Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets Friday, a day after the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the militant group said.