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 children.

Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades,

Amid fears of an expanding war in the Middle East following mass detonations of bombs surreptitiously planted in Hezbollah communication devices, Israel continued its assault of the Iran-backed militia overnight.