{"id":50976,"date":"2026-04-04T05:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/50976\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:40:07","slug":"israel-targets-iran-backed-hezbollah-sites-in-lebanon-in-fresh-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/50976\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel targets Iran-backed Hezbollah sites in Lebanon in fresh strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/israeli-military?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli military<\/a> said on Saturday it had begun striking \u201cHezbollah infrastructure\u201d in Beirut after it destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon to prevent the Iran-backed group\u2019s reinforcements from crossing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two loud explosions were heard in the capital within half an hour early on Saturday, with smoke billowing from one of them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Local media reported two strikes on Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, a locality that has been a target of Israeli strikes in recent days as the military presses on with its ground invasion in the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lebanon?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon<\/a> was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel to avenge the US-Israeli attack that killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ali-khamenei?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A building is destroyed by an overnight Israeli air strike in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c0db6924-1f61-4c75-90f2-e54415403b84_3e87bf4d.jpg\" title=\"A building is destroyed by an overnight Israeli air strike in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday. Photo: AFP\"\/>A building is destroyed by an overnight Israeli air strike in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs on Thursday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Friday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said a blast at one of its positions in the country\u2019s south near the border wounded three peacekeepers, the third similar incident in days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli military said on Saturday it had begun striking \u201cHezbollah infrastructure\u201d in Beirut after it destroyed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[89,847,100,34,37,2412,93,2426,49,10274,20644,3484,18027,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-50976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-beirut","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israeli","14":"tag-lebanon","15":"tag-litani-river","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-national-news-agency","18":"tag-sohmor","19":"tag-unifil","20":"tag-united-nations-interim-force-in-lebanon","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116344836821501321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50976","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=50976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}