Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday night mourned the acting commander of its Elite Radwan Force, Ibrahim Akil, who was killed earlier in the day by an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs.

The attack, which Lebanese officials said killed at least 14 and injured more than 60, stoked fears Israel is driving toward a full-blown war on its northern border, even as the fight in Gaza goes on.

The strike in Lebanon's capital, which killed at least 14 people, adds to fears of an all-out war.

Israel claimed its strike in Lebanon's capital took the life of Ibrahim Aqil, wanted over his alleged role in the 1983 US embassy attack in Beirut which killed dozens.

The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant group’s top military officials.

Photos from a suburb of Beirut in the south, where Hezbollah is widely supported, according to The Washington Post, showed massive damage to cars and buildings as well as rubble in the streets.

Friday brought further escalation in the Middle East after a week of explosive events.

The Israeli military on Friday said its air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut killed top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil and other senior commanders of the movement's Radwan special forces. Hezbollah…

A strike on a suburb of Lebanon’s capital killed Ibrahim Aqil, a prominent Hezbollah leader, Hezbollah and Israel’s military said Friday. The rare airstrike on Lebanon’s capital left at least 14 people dead, and destroyed one residential building while also damaging another, Lebanese health and civil defense officials said, escalating a days-long Israeli assault on Hezbollah amid fears of all-out war. Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah vowed retaliation Thursday against Israel for detonations of electronic devices that killed at least 37 people this week and left thousands injured. Aqil is a Hezbollah leader who sits on the group’s military council and has led Hezbollah’s Operations Unit for two decades, the IDF said. The State Department said Aqil was a “principal member” of the Hezbollah terrorist Islamic Jihad Organization that claimed the bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983 that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, as well as the U.S. Marine Corps barracks bombing in October 1983, which…