UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has denounced strikes on Beirut and Tehran as a “dangerous escalation”, after Israel targeted a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas said its political chief was killed in Iran, AFP reports.

“The secretary general believes that the attacks we have seen in South Beirut and Tehran represent a dangerous escalation at a moment in which all efforts should instead be leading to a ceasefire in Gaza” and “the release of all Israeli hostages”, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.