Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel. Aqil, a key figure in Hezbollah's military operations, marks a significant loss for the group.

Friday’s airstrike — apparently the deadliest such attack on a neighborhood of Beirut since Israel and Hezbollah fought a bloody, monthlong war in 2006 — hit during rush hour.

Photos from a suburb of Beirut in the south, where Hezbollah is widely supported, according to The Washington Post, showed massive damage to cars and buildings as well as rubble in the streets.

An Israeli strike on Lebanon's capital has killed a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise.

It is being said that the Israeli strike was 'targeted' at eliminating a senior Hezbollah military official Ibrahim Aqil, which Israel claims has been killed.

The IDF confirmed it struck a target in Beirut.

A spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces confirmed on X that Ibrahim Aqil, the Head of Hezbollah's Operations Unit, was 'eliminated' in a 'targeted intelligence-based strike' in Beirut earlier today.

Israel claimed its strike in Lebanon's capital took the life of Ibrahim Aqil, wanted over his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy attack in Beirut which killed dozens.

In a brief statement carried by Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's goals were clear and its actions spoke for themselves.

The strike in Lebanon's capital, which killed at least 31 people, adds to fears of an all-out war.

The world is watching on as the simmering 11-month conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah continues to threaten to break out into an all out war in the region

The toll from an Israeli air strike targeting Hezbollah military commanders in Beirut's southern suburbs has risen to 37 dead, Lebanon's health ministry has said.

Hezbollah is in turmoil after Israel took out two leaders of its elite operations unit in a strike on a command meeting in a Beirut stronghold that Lebanese authorities said killed 31 people.

In a significant development, top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Aqil, a senior leader in the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, played a key role in the organization’s military operations.

An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said.

The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil had been killed with other senior members of an elite Hezbollah unit in the airstrike.

A second Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon's capital on Friday, the Lebanese militant group has confirmed.

Israel has launched strikes into Lebanon following increased tensions between it and terrorist organisation Hezbollah has fired rockets into the Jewish state amid the ongoing war in Gaza

Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil killed in Israeli strike, with $7 million bounty for 1983 Beirut bombings.

Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills 31, including women and children, as tensions rise between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli strike has killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City, Palestinians have said, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a Hamas command centre.

Local authorities say the strike hit a school sheltering displaced women and children, while Israel says it was targeting a Hamas command centre.

Israel said it hit a Hamas centre, while Palestinian officials said most killed were women and children.

The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children and six women were among the dead in the Israeli airstrikes on Saturday. The Israeli Army claimed to hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school.