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An airstrike killed the Hamas official and family members in a refugee camp for Palestinians, the group said. A separate deadly blast in Beirut damaged a residential building.

The bombings late Saturday were the latest in a week of stepped up attacks. A bombing on Friday assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, a stunning escalation in Israel’s campaign against the Iranian-backed group.

The fate of Hassan Nasrallah was unclear after Israeli warplanes hit the group’s headquarters. Israel continued to attack what it said were Hezbollah targets through early Saturday.

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Israeli officials say the country’s warplanes destroyed an underground bunker in a residential area after receiving information that the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was convening a meeting there. Several apartment buildings were flattened.

The Israeli leader made no mention of moving toward a cease-fire in Lebanon or Gaza. Casting the current fighting in both places as a struggle for Israel’s existence, he said: “We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.”

Lebanese organizations have begun to identify children, humanitarians and journalists among a growing number of civilians killed in Israel’s intense bombardment.

Lebanese health officials said Israeli attacks since Monday have killed hundreds, including women and children. Israel claimed it had killed one senior Hezbollah commander with an airstrike Tuesday on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Israeli attacks since Monday have killed hundreds, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. They have also prompted fears of an all-out war on another front, with no end in sight to the fighting in Gaza.

It was the deadliest day of Israeli attacks in Lebanon since at least 2006. More than a thousand were also injured, Lebanon’s health ministry said, without saying how many were civilians. The armed group Hezbollah sent rockets into northern Israel