Israel urged residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate from homes and other buildings where it claimed Hezbollah has stored weapons, saying the military would conduct “extensive strikes” against the militant group.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school.

The number of people killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday has risen significantly, Lebanese officials say, with several children and women among the dead. All day on Saturday, rescuers searched through the rubble after a high-rise building collapsed and others were partially destroyed in the attack.

Palestinians said the school was sheltering displaced people but the Israeli army said it was being used as a command center by Hamas.

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.

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

Crews in southern Lebanon sifted through rubble a day after an Israeli attack that targeted a meeting of Hezbollah commanders. The airstrike killed at least 37 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

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.