BEIRUT — Hezbollah was in turmoil on Saturday after Israel took out two leaders of its elite operations unit in a strike on a command meeting in a Beirut stronghold that Lebanese authorities said killed 31 people.

Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said three children were among the dead in Friday's strike on an underground meeting room, which Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists said left a huge crater in a densely populated neighborhood of the capital's southern suburbs.

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