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Hezbollah military commander killed as Israel bomb Beirut amid fears of war after pager attack injured thousands

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People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Tom Perry and Sophie Wills

The Israeli military has announced that its airstrike on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Hezbollah.

The Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital killed at least nine people and wounded nearly 60 others, according to Lebanese health officials, and flattened two apartment buildings.

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