Ibrahim Aqil was killed after multiple Israeli missiles tore into the side of an apartment block in Beirut on Friday

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.

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.