Israel PM says militant group will now ‘understand the message’; seven killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people, rescuers say. Hezbollah deputy leader says confrontation with Israel is now 'open-ended battle of reckoning' 15:12 We have this snap from the Reuters news agency.

The Israeli military reported hitting around 290 Hezbollah targets on Saturday, which included multiple rocket launchers. Israel also implemented school closures and restricted public gatherings in northern areas and the Golan Heights due to the ongoing hostilities.

Israel killed at least two Hezbollah commanders and other members of the group in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 20.

At least 31 people died in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday, including three children and seven women, in the deadliest strike in a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel.

According to Reuters, the Israeli army, in posts on X, said the strike hit an underground gathering of Aqil and senior commanders of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, and had “almost completely dismantled” Hezbollah’s military chain of command.

The deaths of Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe marked the first time in the war that two Hezbollah commanders had been killed by Israel in single day.