{"id":335239,"date":"2026-03-12T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/335239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:52:12","slug":"oil-price-spikes-again-as-iran-ship-attacks-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/335239\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil price spikes again as Iran ship attacks surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1j\">Lebanon has said that an Israeli airstrike on its capital&#8217;s downtown seafront has killed at least eight people and injured 31 others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1m\">The Ministry of Public Health said the attack hit the public beach of Ramlet al-Baida in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1p\">Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces said it had carried out a \u201cwide-scale wave of strikes\u201d across Lebanon, targeting the \u201cterror infrastructure\u201d of Hezbollah, the Iran-allied militant and political group. The IDF has not commented on the beachfront attack specificially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"1s\">Lebanon is facing a humanitarian crisis, with some 700,000 people displaced from their homes in the south of the country as Israel issues evacuation orders and carries out attacks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260312-beirut-2-rs-e9711d.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Image: TOPSHOT-LEBANON-ISRAEL-IRAN-US-WAR\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"1w\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Firefighters work at the site of overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs today.\u00a0  AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260312-beirut-rs-ec4357.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Image: TOPSHOT-LEBANON-ISRAEL-IRAN-US-WAR\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"23\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">A man walks amid damaged buildings following overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Mcharafieh neighbourhood of Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs today.\u00a0Ibrahim Amro \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"29\">Since the start of the war Feb. 28, more than 570 people have been killed and around 1,400 injured, according to Lebanese government figures. Scores of children are among the dead, according to UNICEF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon has said that an Israeli airstrike on its capital&#8217;s downtown seafront has killed at least eight people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-335239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}