🔴 Live: Israel says it has killed several Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon

Summary:

• Israel launched massive air strikes on Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut late Friday, with Israeli media reporting that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was targeted in the strikes.
• An Iranian government source said Tehran was trying to confirm Nasrallah's whereabouts.
• Several apartment buildings covering an area larger than a city block were flattened. Iran claims a US-made "bunker buster" bomb was used in the attack.
• According to Lebanon's National News Agency, eleven air strikes were carried out on southern Beirut overnight.
• The Israeli army also said it had launched strikes on targets near the city of Tyre. It claims it killed the commander of Hezbollah's missile unit in southern Lebanon in an air strike, along with his deputy and several other leaders of the Iran-backed movement.
• Hundreds of families have fled the suburbs, some taking refuge on beaches, others in the centre of the capital.
• Lebanon's health ministry said late Thursday that Israeli strikes had killed 92 people in the country and injured 153 in the past 24 hours. Thursday's toll brings the number of people killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since Monday alone to more than 700.

Yesterday's key developments:

• Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on Friday, warning Tehran that Israel would not hesitate to retaliate if Iran attacks. "If you strike us, we will strike you," he told the assembled delegates.
• Israel rejected a push by allies for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon and vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah militants "until victory". The White House expressed frustration at the rejection, saying the truce proposal had taken "a lot of care and effort".

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)