The death toll from Friday's Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs, a hotbed of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, rose to 37, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Saturday. Among the dead were three children and seven women,

Hezbollah confirmed Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wahbi's deaths after Israel said the targeted strike on the Radwan forces also killed "other senior" figures.

It's first Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital in months and came after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets.

Ibrahim Aqil, a founding member of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Friday, as the US sought to prevent a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.

At least 31 people died in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday, including three children and seven women, in the deadliest strike in a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel.

The deaths of Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe marked the first time in the war that two Hezbollah commanders had been killed by Israel in single day.

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

The rare strike hit a densely populated southern neighborhood on Friday afternoon during rush hour as people returned home.

Crews in southern Lebanon sifted through rubble a day after an Israeli attack that targeted a meeting of Hezbollah commanders. The airstrike killed at least 37 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said.