The airstrike took down an 8-story building in a densely populated neighborhood as Hezbollah members were meeting in the basement, according to Israel.

Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the death of Ibrahim Aqeel. The United States had accused him of being involved in bombings that killed more than 200 U.S. Marines and many others in Beirut in 1983.

Israel's military says a top Hezbollah leader was among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment block. Lebanese officials on Saturday raised the death toll from Friday afternoon's airstrike to 37,

The strike on a suburb of Lebanon’s capital killed Ibrahim Aqil, a prominent Hezbollah leader, and other senior commanders, Israel said. The attack left 14 people dead.

Israel launched a series of strikes on Hezbollah targets Thursday as the war against the Lebanon-based group widened in the wake of two consecutive days of deadly explosions triggered in wireless devices.

Israel launched one of its most intense bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this year Thursday, hours after the militant group’s leader condemned deadly twin attacks that he said crossed “all the red lines.

Hassan Nasrallah said Israel will be punished for explosive attacks; meanwhile, Israel carries out more strikes