BEIRUT, Lebanon.- The Civil defense Lebanese reported that at least 254 people were killed and 1,165 injured this Wednesday in a wave of unprecedented Israeli bombings against different areas of Lebanon, where Israel claims to have hit more than one hundred targets in just ten minutes.
They report more than 200 deaths
On Wednesday afternoon, Israel bombed several densely populated areas in it downtown Beirut without prior notice, hours after a Ceasefire in US-Israel war with Iran. Lebanon said at least 254 people were killed and more than 1,100 wounded in what was one of the deadliest days in Israel’s latest war against Lebanon.
Trump: Lebanon was not in the agreement
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Israel just launched a massive attack on Beirut in Lebanon.
Netanyahu is trying to break the ceasefire between The U.S. and Iran while the countries are busy with negotiations.
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The American president Donald Trump said to PBS News Hour that Lebanon was not included in the agreement due to the presence of the armed group Hezbollah. When asked about Israel’s latest attacks, he responded: “That’s a separate skirmish.” Israel had said the deal does not extend to its war with the Hezbollah group in Lebanon, although mediator Pakistan maintained it does.
Fleeting sense of relief among Lebanese
The fleeting sense of relief among Lebanese after the ceasefire announcement turned to panic with what the Israeli army called the largest coordinated attack in the current war, hitting more than 100 suspected Hezbollah targets in 10 minutes in Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Beka Valley.
Black smoke billowed from several parts of the coastal capital, where huge numbers of people displaced by the war have taken refuge. The explosions interrupted the honking of traffic on what had been a bustling blue-sky afternoon, as ambulances sped toward the flames. Apartment buildings were hit.
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A bombing hit a building in Tallet Al-Khayyat, western area of the Lebanese capital.
⚠️ It is not a traditional Hezbollah stronghold.
Israel claims that the target was an operative of the group that moved outside its areas… pic.twitter.com/oQuMOLwTuE— Azteca_NewsMX (@Azteca_NewsMX) April 8, 2026
Rescuers searched for survivors
Journalists from The Associated Press They saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections, in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and residential area. Using forklifts, rescuers removed smoldering debris and combed the ruins for survivors.
There were no signs that Hezbollah launched attacks against Israel in the first two hours after the attacks.
Hezbollah responds: The blood of Israel’s victims in Lebanon “will not be shed in vain”
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Israel unleashes a massive wave of attacks against Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed proxy in Lebanon.
Iran is furious and responds harshly.
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The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah affirmed that the blood of the hundreds of victims of the “massacres” perpetrated this Wednesday by Israel in different parts of Lebanon “will not be shed in vain.”
This was indicated by the formation in a statement from its information office on its official Telegram channel, in which it noted that “today’s massacres, like all acts of aggression and brutal crimes (by Israel), demonstrate our natural and legal right to resist the occupation and respond to its aggression.”
According to him Lebanon Emergency Operations Centerpart of the Ministry of Public Health, at least 254 people were killed and another 1,165 were injured in the unprecedented wave of Israeli bombings against different areas of Lebanon.
Hezbollah stated that these actions “will only strengthen” the movement’s determination to “resist and confront the enemy, to deter its aggression, to defend our people and our homeland, and to protect our security in the face of this constant aggression.”
The group described as “barbaric aggression” the Israeli actions against Beirut, the suburbs known as Dahye and in the Bekaa Valley, which the Israeli Army said was the “largest attack” since last March 2, when the Shiite formation joined the war in Iran.
“This unbridled aggression is a clear expression of the enemy’s frustration after its complete failure to achieve its objectives and plans on various fronts. It reveals its vulnerability to defeat, its inability to alter the order established by the firmness of the Iranian and Lebanese people, and its state of collapse, confusion and disorganization within this besieged entity and its defeated army, punished by the blows of the resistance,” the note concludes.
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
In response to the attacks in Lebanon, Iran announced Wednesday that it will again halt the movement of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s state media reported.
A deadly barrage
The center of Beirut had already been attacked before, but not by so many bombings at once and in broad daylight. Israel has rarely attacked central Beirut since the outbreak of the most recent war between Israel and Hezbollah on March 2, but has regularly raided southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Lebanon’s minister of social affairs, Haneed Sayed, in an interview with The Associated Press, condemned Israel’s wide range of strikes, calling it a “very dangerous turning point.” https://t.co/PT49VCSuHd
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The Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon, Haneed Sayedin an interview, condemned Israel’s attacks, calling them a “very dangerous turning point.”
“These attacks are now in the heart of Beirut… Half of the refugees are in Beirut in this area,” he said, adding that he had just driven through the attacked areas.
He declared that Lebanon’s government is ready to enter into negotiations with Israel to end hostilities, an offer the president had already made. Israel has not responded. “There are calls and efforts that are being made right now,” Sayed said.
While we welcomed the agreement between Iran and the United States of America, and intensified our efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Israel continues to expand its attacks that targeted crowded residential neighborhoods, killing unarmed civilians, in various parts of Lebanon, especially in the capital, Beirut, ignoring all efforts…
— Nawaf Salam (@nawafsalam) April 8, 2026
The prime minister Nawaf Salamin a statement, accused Israel of escalating at a time when a solution was being negotiated, and of attacking civilian areas with “total disregard for the principles of international law and international humanitarian law—principles that, in any case, it has never respected.”
The Lebanese president Joseph Aoun He described the Israeli attacks as “barbaric.” Lebanon’s Health Ministry indicated that, along with the 254 dead, at least 1,165 were injured, warning that this is not the final figure.
Israel blames Hezbollah for attacks
The Israeli military said it had attacked missile launchers, command centers and intelligence infrastructure and accused Hezbollah fighters of trying to “blend in” into non-Shiite Muslim areas beyond their traditional strongholds.
Residents and local officials denied that the buildings hit were military sites.
“Look at these crimes,” he said. Mohammed Balouzaa member of the Beirut municipal council, at the scene of an attack on Corniche al Mazraa. An apartment building behind a popular store selling nuts and dried fruit had been hit. “This is a residential area. There is nothing (military) here.”
Israel threatens Hezbollah leader
As smoke rose Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem that “his turn will come.” In 2024, Israel killed former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with an airstrike.
Katz called Wednesday’s attacks the biggest blow against Hezbollah since the Israeli operation in which hundreds of the militia’s beepers exploded almost simultaneously in September 2024.
Before the new wave of attacks, a Hezbollah official told The Associated Press that the group was giving mediators a chance to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon, but that “we have not announced our adherence to the ceasefire as the Israelis are not complying.” He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public comments.
The Hezbollah official warned that the group will not accept a return to the status quo prior to March 2, when Israel carried out almost daily attacks in Lebanon even though a truce was nominally in effect since the last large-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah ended in November 2024.
“We will not accept that the Israelis continue to behave as they did before this war when it comes to attacks,” he noted.
Hezbollah had fired missiles across the border days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, triggering a regional war. Israel responded with widespread bombing of Lebanon and a ground invasion.
Israel victims
Since the war began and before Wednesday’s attacks, Israeli bombings had killed more than 1,530 people in Lebanon, including more than 100 women and 130 children. The Israeli military has said it has killed hundreds of Hezbollah fighters. More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon.
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