{"id":335182,"date":"2026-03-08T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:52:08","slug":"lebanon-says-israeli-strike-on-beirut-hotel-kills-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335182\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon says Israeli strike on Beirut hotel kills four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lebanon’s health ministry has said an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, with Israel saying it had targeted commanders from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n

Israel, which has kept up strikes targeting Hezbollah despite a 2024 ceasefire, launched multiple waves of strikes this week across Lebanon and sent ground troops into border areas.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli airstrike hit Beirut’s city centre, targeting “a hotel room”, killing four people and wounding 10 others.<\/p>\n

\"First
\nThe Israeli military said the strike targeted ‘key commanders’ in the Quds Force<\/p>\n

The Israeli military earlier announced it had “begun an additional wave of strikes in Beirut”, saying it was targeting the capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.<\/p>\n

A separate statement later said Israeli forces carried out a “precise strike” in Beirut, targeting “key commanders” in the Quds Force – the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm.<\/p>\n

The statement, which did not specify the exact location, accused the unidentified commanders of planning “terror attacks against the State of Israel and its civilians”.<\/p>\n

Israel “will continue to precisely eliminate the commanders of the Iranian terror regime wherever they operate”, it said.<\/p>\n

An AFP photographer at the bombarded seafront hotel saw one room on the fourth floor with shattered glass and charred walls, while security forces cordoned off the site.<\/p>\n

The hotel’s area of Raouche is a major tourist destination and had remained untouched by Israeli strikes during the war between Israel and Hezbollah, which ended with a ceasefire in November 2024.<\/p>\n

Dozens of panicked guests fled the hotel with their luggage, the photographer said.<\/p>\n

Two witnesses said they had heard a loud bang, before ambulances rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n

\"Rocket
\nRocket trails in the sky above Netanya in Israel<\/p>\n

The area along the Mediterranean coast is home to dozens of hotels, now overcrowded with displaced people who fled their homes elsewhere in Lebanon due to the ongoing fighting.<\/p>\n

This is the second Israeli attack on a hotel in the Beirut area this week.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike hit a hotel in the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Hazmieh outside Beirut, near the presidential palace and several government ministries and diplomatic missions.<\/p>\n

AFPTV live footage from Beirut’s southern suburbs also showed smoke following what appeared to be an airstrike.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks targeting Israeli forces and a city across the border, “in response to the criminal Israeli aggression that affected dozens of Lebanese cities and towns”, according to statements from the group.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah also said its fighters were engaged in clashes with Israeli forces near the border town of Aitaroun.<\/p>\n

Air raid sirens sounded in several areas of northern Israel, with no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon’s health ministry has said an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-335182","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}