{"id":529660,"date":"2026-03-11T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:29:10","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-news-strait-of-hormuz-in-crosshairs-of-conflict-as-attacks-on-ships-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529660\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war news, Strait of Hormuz in crosshairs of conflict as attacks on ships escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christians<\/p>\n

\n Dozens of worshippers gathered on a sunlit stretch of land in Qlayaa village, southern Lebanon, on Wednesday to commemorate a Christian priest who was killed by Israeli fire two days ago.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pallbearers carried a pristine white coffin carrying Father Pierre Al-Raai<\/a> through the streets of Qlayaa, footage aired by the local Christian broadcaster, Noursat Network, showed. Nearby, parishioners dabbed their tears at his funeral procession outside Saint George\u2019s church.\n <\/p>\n

\n Father Al-Raai was one of 634 people who have been killed by Israel\u2019s assault in Lebanon, according to Lebanon\u2019s Disaster Risk Management Unit. The assault has brought mass displacement from Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut to villages on its southern border with Israel. Regional hostilities have forced 49 primary health care centers and five hospitals to close, the UN\u2019s World Health Organization reported Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now, Israeli attacks on the fringes of Lebanon have drawn a handful of Christian communities into the violence. On Wednesday, the Israeli military issued a wave of new evacuation calls for six new villages<\/a> in the south.\n <\/p>\n

\"Pope<\/p>\n

\n Pope Leo XIV mourned \u201ccivilian victims\u201d including \u201cmany innocent children\u201d as he paid tribute to the Lebanese priest on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI am close to all the Lebanese people at this moment of grave trial,\u201d Pope Leo said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cFather Pierre was a true shepherd who always remained beside his people with the love and sacrifice of Jesus the Good Shepherd,\u201d the Pope added. \u201cMay the Lord grant that the blood he shed may be a seed of peace for beloved Lebanon.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A Red Cross paramedic who was killed by an Israeli strike while helping injured survivors from a separate attack in southern Tyre district was also buried on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of worshippers gathered on a sunlit stretch of land in Qlayaa village, southern Lebanon, on Wednesday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-529660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}