BEIRUT, Lebanon—At 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Dalia, 38, was at a gym down the street from her home in the Karakas neighborhood in central Beirut when a series of massive airstrikes rocked the city.

One of the strikes hit just up the street, along the stretch of road between her apartment and the gym—a route she walks every day. The blast was so forceful it shook the building and left her ears ringing for hours. Her first thought was her daughter, who was at a basketball court across the street. When Dalia ran outside, she immediately saw thick smoke rising in the air. She sprinted to the court and found her daughter crying alongside other children.

“All the children were traumatized,” she said.

The strikes were part of a sweeping Israeli aerial bombardment campaign across Lebanon on Wednesday that came just hours after a U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement was announced by President Donald Trump. In a span of 10 minutes, Israel hit over 100 targets across the country, including many in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut and its southern suburbs.

According to Lebanon’s Civil Defense, at least 254 people were killed and over 1,100 wounded in the attacks. The vast majority of the casualties were in the capital and its southern suburbs, with over 150 killed.

The Israeli assault came without warning and was by far the heaviest single wave of attacks on Lebanon over the past five weeks. In Beirut, the speed and scale of the bombardment stunned a population that has experienced successive wars, but rarely like this: strikes landing almost simultaneously, in broad daylight, while the streets were crowded. Thick black smoke billowed across the city as the sound of ambulances echoed through the streets. Authorities urged residents to remain indoors to allow emergency responders to move through the traffic-clogged roads. Dalia said the shock has yet to settle. “It’s surreal,” she said. “Did this really happen? Was it really this close to home? I really don’t think I’ve processed it yet.”

Hours after its initial spate of airstrikes, the Israeli military bombed a nine-story residential building in Beirut’s Tallet al-Khayyat neighborhood, trapping residents under the rubble. Outside of Beirut, at least ten people were killed during a funeral in the town of Shmustar in eastern Lebanon. Three girls were killed in Adloun, a coastal area in the south. A family of four was killed in the northeastern village of Mansoura. Four people were killed in a strike on the southeastern town of Majadel.

Lebanon’s Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine told Al Jazeera that, “Hospitals are overcrowded with martyrs and the wounded.” Hospitals across Beirut quickly issued urgent calls for blood donations. At St. George Hospital in Geitawi, a nurse hurriedly organized donors in the blood bank, urging those with type O blood to come forward. In the hospital’s lobby and courtyard, people clutched their phones, some sobbing as a drone buzzed overhead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the “temporary ceasefire” with Iran would not include Lebanon, “and we are continuing to strike it with force.” The Israeli military bragged about what it said was the “largest coordinated strike” on Lebanon since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion” on March 2, with targets struck in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley, and southern Lebanon. It published multiple posts online, including a graphic depicting the locations of the bombings across the country, photos of the aircraft that allegedly took part in the attacks, and photos of the Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir alongside senior military officials supposedly in an operations room at the time of the strikes. “We will not compromise the security of the residents of northern Israel. We will continue to strike with determination,” Zamir was quoted as saying.

The attacks came just hours after the ceasefire was announced for the Iran war, which included Lebanon, and threatened to unravel the agreement on day one.

President Donald Trump claimed in response to questions from PBS that Lebanon was “not included in the deal,” calling it a “separate skirmish.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later reiterated the claim at a White House press briefing, saying, “Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire, that has been relayed to all parties involved in the ceasefire.”

In response, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi reposted the original statement from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announcing the ceasefire and highlighted the text of the agreement that stipulated an “immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon.” Araghchi wrote, “The Iran–U.S. Ceasefire terms are clear and explicit: the U.S. must choose—ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon. The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.”

Iran’s speaker of parliament Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf also posted a statement outlining what it said were violations of key clauses of the agreement framework, including “non-compliance with the first clause of the 10-Point Proposal regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon.”

Niku Jafarnia, a Beirut-based lawyer and researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the attacks hit densely populated areas without warning. “Under the laws of war, parties to a conflict must take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize the incidental loss of civilian life,” she told Drop Site.

Striking “within the heart of the civilian population shows a callous disregard for the civilians living in these areas.”

We ashkeNAZI Zionists need a buffer zone in Lebanon for our Lebensraum.

Why would Isreali assaults on Lebanon threaten a peace treaty between America and Iran?
Why would Isreali assaults on Lebanon threaten a peace treaty between Israel and Iran?
Lebanon is a Christian country, with a christian president.
Iran is a radical muslim theocracy.

>>1504702
The Iranians, for whatever reasons, want the ceasefire to be across the whole region. Maybe they just don’t like seeing civilians getting bombed. Try to read the article

>>1504704
Why don't they tie in a unilateral end to the death penalty in the middle east into the whole deal?
No peace deal unless every country in the middle east ends death as a penalty for any offense. Stop the killing

>>1504720
>Why don't they tie in a unilateral end to the death penalty in the middle east
we literally don't even have that in the US.

>>1504599
>https://www.dropsitenews.com
Why is this substack blog allowed here?

>>1504753
Posting news articles is not against the rules

UPDATE:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/9/iran-says-it-would-be-dumb-for-us-to-let-netanyahu-kill-diplomacy

Iran says it ‘would be dumb’ for US to let Netanyahu kill diplomacy
In an implicit response to JD Vance, Iran’s Abbas Araghchi warns of the repercussions of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.

>>1504722
Maybe they should add that to the deal

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that it would be “dumb” for the United States to allow Israel to jeopardise the regional ceasefire by continuing its intense attacks on Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people since the truce came into effect.

On Thursday, Araghchi noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will resume on Sunday. He suggested that the Israeli leader has an ulterior motive for continuing the fighting.

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“A region-wide ceasefire, incl in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing,” Araghchi wrote on social media.

He then added a message for the US, which has denied that Lebanon was included in the original ceasefire.

“If the US wishes to crater its economy by letting Netanyahu kill diplomacy, that would ultimately be its choice. We think that would be dumb but are prepared for it,” Araghchi wrote.

His comment mirrors language used by US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday. Vance had warned against Iranians letting the ceasefire fall apart over Lebanon, saying, “We think that would be dumb, but that’s their choice.”

Since the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday, the disagreement over whether it applies to Lebanon has become a major threat to the future of the truce.

Iranian officials and media outlets have suggested that Tehran may respond militarily to the Israeli assault on Lebanon or block the Strait of Hormuz to ensure the ceasefire applies to Lebanon.

>>1504766
Vance must’ve meant it would be dumb for the Americans to refuse the deal only to let Israel just keep bombing civilians and try to ethnically cleanse the Southern part of Lebanon

>>1504766
Israel wants its war, and Trump is too weak and ineffective to lead.
Simple as

>>1504782
I think it’s important at this time to understand that the Iranians really are in the stronger position for negotiations. They don’t care what the Israelis or Americans want, they have these demands and if the Americans want a ceasefire they’ll accept it or there won’t be a ceasefire and Trump can post more jokes about nuclear war and shit or try a ground invasion

>>1504759
Substack is a blog and blogposting is against the rules.

>>1504791
>Substack is an American online platform that allows writers to publish subscription-based content, such as newsletters, podcasts, and videos, directly to their subscribers. It was founded in 2017 and provides tools for publishing, payment, and analytics.

>>1504824
So it's a blog hosting site. Got it.

>>1504841
The entirety of the internet is a blog hosting site you retard. Do you have language issues, trouble understanding the true meanings of words?

>>1504599
Just imagine if Trump flips on Israeli thugs.
It would be a thing of beauty.

>>1504849
6 IDF soldiers were killed in Lebanon today, tomorrow there’ll be a ceasefire because Trump says so, and on Sunday Bibi goes back on trial

Why doesn't every neighbouring country just team up and attack Israel together.

>>1504971
Cause the last time they tried that, they lost. And that was before Israel had a bunch of nukes and a US president willing to fight their wars for them.

>>1504971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option

>>1504973
Do it or no balls

>>1504853
Bibi's dead, bro

>>1504702
Because Iran doesn't want Israel to destroy it's terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. I don't know if I should be surprised, but it's ridiculous how many people are against Israel fighting terrorists in Lebanon. But maybe that's just bias from looking at opinions online as opposed to real life. I think it's a combination of: idiot leftists who don't know their ass from their elbow, antisemites who just want Israel to be destroyed because da jooz, and literal paid shills from the new Axis of Russia, China, and Iran.

>>1505005
Israel just bombed a carwash in Nabatieh killing 6 people

>>1505005
Supporting israeli settlers as a non-jew would be insane. It's only a matter of time before you're next on the chopping block.

>>1504971
>1948
>The War Of Attrition
>1967
>1973
>Literally everything to do with the extended conflict with Assad I's Syria
There's your reason.