{"id":101211,"date":"2026-05-06T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:27:37","slug":"israel-strikes-beirut-for-the-first-time-since-lebanon-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/101211\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since Lebanon ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel struck Beirut \u2060on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last month, with Israel saying it targeted a commander of the militant group\u2019s elite Radwan force in the city\u2019s southern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz announced the action in a joint statement. Israeli media reported that the commander was killed in the strike, but there was no immediate confirmation from the Israeli military or Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Lebanon \u200cceasefire has underpinned a broader US-Iran truce, with a halt to Israeli strikes in Lebanon being a key Iranian demand.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As Iran and the US say they are drawing closer to a deal to halt their conflict, the strikes threaten the ceasefire that halted Israeli attacks on Beirut. Israeli troops have remained in areas south of the Litani River and strikes continued in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran ally Hezbollah has responded by firing and launching armed drones towards Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rescuers search through the rubble of a damaged building for survivors following an Israeli air strike in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Wednesday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c6021c19-4a68-4781-bf8d-04812a125898_82263143.jpg\" title=\"Rescuers search through the rubble of a damaged building for survivors following an Israeli air strike in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Wednesday. Photo: AP\"\/>Rescuers search through the rubble of a damaged building for survivors following an Israeli air strike in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Wednesday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel earlier on Wednesday called for residents to evacuate several villages north of the Litani River, which could represent an expansion of Israel\u2019s zone of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel struck Beirut \u2060on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[847,41,38,100,34,37,2412,849,5401,93,2426,3925,14673,51,1705],"class_list":{"0":"post-101211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-beirut","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-hezbollah","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israeli","15":"tag-joseph-aoun","16":"tag-lebanese","17":"tag-lebanon","18":"tag-litani-river","19":"tag-nawaf-salam","20":"tag-radwan-force","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116529518610162424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}