The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,272, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday. During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 20 people and wounded 54 others,

The deaths of Ibrahim Aqil and Ahmed Wehbe marked the first time in the war that two Hezbollah commanders had been killed by Israel in single day.

There were also about 3,000 people injured in the device explosions. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Egypt for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, as tensions with Hezbollah persist at the Israel-Lebanon border in the wake of the shocking explosions of wireless devices.

Palestinian authorities say 15 people were killed overnight in the Gaza Strip in multiple Israeli attacks. An airstrike early Friday morning in Gaza City hit a family home, killing six people including an unknown number of children,

The attacks in southern Lebanon follow others on Hezbollah rocket launchers and infrastructure, after Hezbollah vowed to respond to detonations of pagers and radios.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will speak in Egypt on Wednesday after Israel's pager bombing operation killed several people in Lebanon.