Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: IDF orders evacuations in Beirut as huge blast hits city

Eleven paramedics were killed on Friday in the ongoing Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Hezbollah.

That includes seven who died in a strike on ambulance crews and two killed in a strike on an ambulance center, Hezbollah said.

Amid increased fighting between Israel and Hezbollah over the past two weeks, 97 paramedics have been killed and 188 have been injured in Lebanon, the Lebanese Minister of Public Health Dr. Firas Al-Abyad said Thursday.

Forty-five medical centers and 128 medical vehicles have been damaged, Al-Abyad said.

Over the past 24 hours, 37 people have been killed and another 151 injured in Lebanon from various Israeli attacks, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Friday.

Overall, 2,011 people have been killed and 9,535 injured over the past two weeks, it said.

-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran's attack on Israel this week was "completely legal and legitimate" during a speech on Friday.

He said they will act again in the future "if needed."

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met with the Lebanese caretaker prime minister in Beirut on Friday, saying his visit to the capital was to show Iran's support for Hezbollah.

"We have no plans to continue" striking Israel "unless the Israeli entity decides to target us," Araqchi said after the meeting.

Israel on Friday acknowledged Iran's attack made some hits in central and southern Israel, including some hits on Israeli air force bases, "but nothing that hurt our functionality or operation levels," Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said at a press briefing.

"Israeli air forces is fully operational, and the planes from the Nevatim Air Base were carrying out strikes throughout the last few days in different locations in the Middle East," Shoshani added.

-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz, Somayeh Malekian and Dana Savir

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and at least 20 others injured when a drone launched from Iraq struck their post in northern Israel, a source with knowledge of the incident told ABC News.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq took responsibility for targeting three locations in northern Israel with drones in a statement on Friday.

This is the first time IDF soldiers have been killed and injured in a drone attack from Iraq.

-ABC News' Dana Savir, Dorit Long and Ghazi Balkiz

Israeli forces targeted what they claim was a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in Dahieh during a large strike in Beirut that hit the area close to midnight local time overnight.

The headquarters was a bunker, an Israeli official told ABC News.

ABC News has learned Hashem Safieddine was a target in the strike. He is the one likely believed to succeed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week.

-ABC News' Dana Savir