Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble a day after an Israeli airstrike, targeting Hezbollah commanders, killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital,

The death toll from a "targeted attack" by the Israeli military on a Beirut suburb Friday rose to 37, including seven women and three children, Lebanon's health minister said on Saturday, as Israel and the militant group Hezbollah continued to trade strikes. The U.S. also urged Americans in Lebanon to leave the country.

As rescue crews recovered victims of Israel’s strike on Beirut, Israeli warplanes launched a withering attack on Lebanon’s south amid fears of wider war.

The attack represents another security failure for the militant group that has been reeling from repeated Israeli blows.

Hezbollah said it fired dozens of missiles into an air base in southeast Haifa as a retaliatory move after a series of attacks from Israel killed dozens of people in Lebanon last week, according to reports.

The rare strike hit a densely populated southern neighborhood on Friday afternoon during rush hour as people returned home.

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Rescue efforts continue in Beirut as workers search for survivors in the rubble after an Israeli airstrike on Friday killed at least 37 people, including senior Hezbollah leaders. The strike targeted a gathering of Hezbollah commanders in a suburb of the Lebanese capital,