Hezbollah was reeling Saturday from an Israeli airstrike that killed two of its senior figures and dozens of other people, intensifying fears of all-out war in the Middle East in the wake of the deadly attacks on the group’s communication devices.

Hezbollah confirms two of its senior commanders have been killed in an Israeli strike. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says its forces "conducted a targeted strike in Beirut".

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.