Hezbollah praises Ibrahim Akil as ‘one of its great leaders’ following his deatg in Israeli airstrike. At least 31 people were killed, including three children, in Beirut attack on Friday, says health ministry 09:48 At least 31 people were killed,

The Israeli military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the strike on Beirut's southern Dahiya district killed Ibrahim Akil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, as well as 10 other Hezbollah operatives.

BEIRUT -- 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, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and dozens more wounded in the attack.