Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike in a southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday, killing at least three people and wounding 17, in what two Israeli officials tell Axios was a strike against top Hezbollah military commanders,

Hezbollah and Israel have traded blows in recent days, as the conflict has escalated with few off-ramps in sight to avoid total war.

Israel has carried out what its military called a “targeted strike” on Beirut. It offered no further immediate details.