🔴Live: Israel says it killed Hezbollah commander in Beirut strike

Summary: 

• The Israeli military said an air strike in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday killed top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and other senior commanders of the movement's Radwan special forces. Hezbollah has not confirmed the killing.
• The Israeli air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, killed at least eight people and wounded 59, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
• Hezbollah on Friday launched around 140 rockets into northern Israel. The Israeli military said the attack came in three waves. Hezbollah said it targeted several sites across Lebanon's southern border.
• The Israeli military on Friday opened an investigation after videos showed its soldiers pushing what appear to be bodies off a rooftop in the occupied West Bank during a raid on Thursday in Qabatiya. 
• Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their heaviest aerial strikes on southern Lebanon, striking hundreds of multiple rocket launcher barrels.
• At least 41,252 Palestinians have been killed and 95,497 wounded in Israel's war in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. The Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel resulted in the deaths of more than 1,190 people, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures. Some 250 people were taken hostage, with about 120 remaining in Gaza. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.

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Yesterday's key developments: 

• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday acknowledged that his group suffered an "unprecedented blow" with the attacks targeting his group's electronic devices. But he vowed to keep up daily strikes on Israel in his first speech since this weeks attacks in Lebanon.
• Two Israeli soldiers were killed in combat Thursday near Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Israeli military said.
• It is widely believed that Israel orchestrated explosive attacks targeting hand-held electronic devices used by Hezbollah but the blasts have also killed civilians, including two children. Explosions on Tuesday targeting pagers killed 12 people and exploding walkie-talkies and other electronics on Wednesday killed 25 people, taking the total death toll to 37, according to Lebanese health ministry figures. Roughly 3,000 people were wounded over two days of attacks.
• Japanese firm Icom said that it stopped producing the model of two-way radios reportedly used in Wednesday's blasts in Lebanon around 10 years ago. The company said it last exported the devices overseas, including to the Middle East, in 2014.

About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.

(FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP, Reuters)