A slew of senior leaders of Hezbollah’s elite fighting force were killed alongside top commander Ibrahim Aqil, in a rare airstrike Friday in Beirut as the longtime enemies inch closer to a full-blown war,

The senior Hezbollah leader trained the group’s elite fighting unit and led its support for Hamas after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Lebanese militia said.

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,