{"id":568512,"date":"2026-05-06T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:59:10","slug":"how-10-minutes-of-bombing-by-israel-tore-through-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568512\/","title":{"rendered":"How 10 minutes of bombing by Israel tore through Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF says it targeted 250 Hezbollah operatives that day but has not provided a full list of names. Lebanon&#8217;s health ministry disputes this, saying the vast majority of those killed were civilians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked what steps were taken to protect civilians, the IDF said it made &#8220;extensive efforts to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF also said that most of the targeted sites were located &#8220;within the heart of the civilian population, as part of Hezbollah&#8217;s cynical exploitation of Lebanese civilians as human shields to safeguard its operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hezbollah denies this, stating that Israel targets civilians as a pressure tactic. The group, proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and some gulf Arab states, added that it never wanted war and is acting in self-defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 8 April Israel says it hit 100 targets within 10 minutes, making it one of Lebanon&#8217;s deadliest days in decades. More than 360 people were killed, and over 1,000 injured that day, Lebanon says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel called the operation Eternal Darkness. To the Lebanese people who lived through it, it is known as Black Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by Jasmin Dyer and Jake Tacchi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF says it targeted 250 Hezbollah operatives that day but has not provided a full list of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-568512","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}