THREE KIDS KILLED IN ISRAELI STRIKE ON TERROR LEADER

THREE children, seven women and two Hezbollah commanders were among the 37 killed by Friday's Israeli air strike on Beirut.

- SIMON MURPHY

One of the leaders killed in the Lebanese capital, Ibrahim Aqil, had a $7million bounty on his head for the deaths of 370 people in the 1983 Beirut bombings of the US Embassy and Marines barracks.

Friday's rush hour strike - Israel's deadliest attack on Lebanon for 18 years also wounded 68.

Yesterday, workers were still digging through the rubble, with the Lebanese Red Cross on standby to take away any recovered bodies.

The carnage follows a week of violence in Lebanon and Syria, where pagers and walkie-talkies exploded, killing 37 and wounding thousands.

Last night, the Gaza Health Ministry said an Israeli strike on a school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City had killed at least 22 people and wounded 30. Israel said it was a Hamas command centre which previously served as a school.