Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n
April 08, 2026\u2022Update: April 08, 2026<\/p>\n
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel on Wednesday of attacking \u201cdensely populated residential areas\u201d despite ceasefire efforts.<\/p>\n
In a statement on the US social media company X, Salam said Lebanon has welcomed a recent ceasefire announcement agreement between Iran and the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we intensified our efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Israel continued to escalate its attacks targeting densely populated residential areas that claimed the lives of innocent civilians throughout Lebanon, particularly in the capital, Beirut.\u201d<\/p>\n
The premier accused Israel of \u201cdisregarding all regional and international efforts to end the war.<\/p>\n
Israel \u201cblatantly violated the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, which it has never respected in the first place,\u201d he said, calling on Lebanon’s friends \u201cto stop these attacks by all available means.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Israeli army said Wednesday it struck more than 100 sites \u201cwithin 10 minutes\u201d across multiple areas in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon, in the \u201clargest\u201d coordinated strike since the start of the current offensive in Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Israel has carried out airstrikes and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon since a cross-border attack by Hezbollah on March 2, despite a ceasefire that took effect in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Lebanese authorities said that at least 1,530 people have since been killed and 4,812 others injured in the Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala April 08, 2026\u2022Update: April 08, 2026 Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel on Wednesday of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-381492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381492","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=381492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}