Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war.

France has urged strict restraint across the Middle East after Israel’s strike in Beirut killed senior Hezbollah commander Haytham Tabatabai, a development that Paris said risks accelerating an already explosive regional standoff.

Hezbollah held a funeral on Monday for its top military chief and other members of the militant group a day after a deadly Israeli strike on south Beirut, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards urged revenge.

On Sunday, Israel launched an airstrike in the capital Beirut for the first time in several months, killing Hezbollah chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabataba'i. ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge reports.

Israeli forces on Sunday struck Lebanon's capital for the first time since June, killing Hezbollah's chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai. The attack on Beirut’s southern suburb, the latest in an unending series of Israeli violations of its ceasefire with the Lebanese group, killed at least five people and injured 25, the country’s health ministry said.

Israel has killed the chief of staff of the Hezbollah militant group in an air strike in Beirut – the first attack on Lebanon’s capital city in months.