Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, which has been exchanging fire with Israel for months, on Saturday announced that two commanders of its elite operations unit had been killed by an Israeli strike

The death toll from Israel's airstrike on the southern Beirut stronghold of the Lebanese Islamic militant group Hezbollah has risen to 31, the country's top health official said Saturday.

Days after the attacks on Hezbollah with exploding electronic devices across Lebanon, Israel has struck a suburb of Beirut.

An Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Iran-backed Hezbollah has a strong presence, killed eight people and wounded at least 59 others, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The attack raises the stakes in a long-running conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and adds to the risk that they could be dragged into a full-blown war.