{"id":8862,"date":"2026-03-08T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8862\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:07:08","slug":"lebanon-says-at-least-4-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-beirut-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/8862\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon says at least 4 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lebanon\u2019s health ministry on Sunday said an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, with Israel saying it had targeted commanders from Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Israel, which has kept up strikes targeting Hezbollah despite a 2024 ceasefire, launched multiple waves of strikes this week across Lebanon and sent ground troops into border areas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Early on Sunday, the Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli air strike hit Beirut\u2019s city centre, targeting \u201ca hotel room\u201d, killing four people and wounding 10 others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"First aid responders are seen inside the lobby of the Ramada hotel in which a room was targeted by an Israeli strike, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/13edc8ee-9607-45ac-906f-e951bae3a315_ba2600ce.jpg\" title=\"First aid responders are seen inside the lobby of the Ramada hotel in which a room was targeted by an Israeli strike, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo: AFP\"\/>First aid responders are seen inside the lobby of the Ramada hotel in which a room was targeted by an Israeli strike, in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Israeli military earlier announced it had \u201cbegun an additional wave of strikes in Beirut\u201d, saying it was targeting the capital\u2019s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s health ministry on Sunday said an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5494,89,847,100,34,5492,37,93,187,5163,5495,5493,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-8862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-aitaroun","9":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-beirut","11":"tag-hezbollah","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-irans-revolutionary-guards","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-lebanon","16":"tag-middle-east-war","17":"tag-quds-force","18":"tag-raouche","19":"tag-state-of-israel","20":"tag-us-israeli-strikes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116191352768335773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}