Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without providing further details on his killing.

The Israeli regime on Friday hit a residential area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut in an attempted assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil.

A Hezbollah commander has been killed in an airstrike in Lebanon, just days after two waves of explosive attacks on communications devices used by the militant group.