The Israeli military says it's carried out a "targeted strike" on the Lebanese capital Beirut, after Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel It comes after more than 30 people were killed in a series of exploding device attacks on Hezbollah members earlier in the week,

According to Reuters, at least 31 people, including the senior Hezbollah commander, were killed in the capital of Lebanon. Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah's operations commander, died in the strike on an apartment block in the city's southern suburbs on Friday afternoon. Lebanese authorities reported that 68 others were also injured in the attack.

As a reminder, this comes after Israel launched intensive overnight airstrikes in southern Lebanon, with the military saying its warplanes targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers. A barrage of rockets has been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the Israeli military says.

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.

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