Airstrikes ripped through central Beirut on Wednesday afternoon, sending black smoke over the Lebanese capital just hours after a ceasefire was announced in the war between Israel and Iran.

The attacks hit dense commercial and residential districts without warning, jolting a city that had begun to hope the regional conflict might be easing. Israeli officials insisted the truce does not apply to their war with Hezbollah, despite claims from mediator Pakistan that the agreement covered Lebanon as well.

News Report

Ten Minutes, One Hundred Targets

Israel’s military described the barrage as the largest coordinated strike of the current campaign.

More than 100 Hezbollah-linked sites were hit within ten minutes across Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley, according to the Israeli military. Officials said the targets included missile launchers, command centres and intelligence infrastructure.

The military accused Hezbollah of embedding its operations inside civilian areas — a charge the group denies.

Capital City Thrown Back Into War

In Beirut, the strikes shattered what had been a calm afternoon.

Explosions echoed above traffic noise as black smoke billowed over the skyline. Ambulances rushed through congested streets toward burning buildings and charred vehicles.

At least one apartment block was hit in the strikes. Casualty figures were not immediately clear, but several impacts landed in busy commercial zones.

Ceasefire That Never Reached Lebanon

The escalation came despite diplomatic efforts to widen the Iran ceasefire to the Lebanese front.

A Hezbollah official said the group had been giving mediators time to secure a deal but had not committed to any truce. The official warned the group would not accept a return to the uneasy status quo that existed before the latest war erupted on March 2.

“We will not accept the Israelis continuing as before,” the official said.

Displaced Families Left in Limbo

The violence has already taken a devastating toll. Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,500 people in Lebanon and displaced over one million.

Earlier Wednesday, families sheltering in tents across Beirut and Sidon began packing up, believing the Iran ceasefire might signal a wider pause.

Then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the campaign in Lebanon would continue.

For families like 35-year-old Fadi Zaydan, the message was brutal: hope was premature.

“We can’t take this anymore,” he said. “But if we go home, we’ll be targeted.”

Israel strikes central Beirut without warning after saying Iran ceasefire doesn't apply there

Yeah the ceasefire seems to be such a success only Trump could achieve.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/saudi-oil-pipeline-damage-said-145726216.html

A key Saudi oil pipeline to the Red Sea suffered only limited damage from an earlier drone strike on one of its pumping stations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The damage from the strike on Wednesday afternoon was limited and contained, the people said. One of the people said that the pipeline was not shut down as a result of the strike.

Saudi Aramco earlier declined to comment on the strike.

Lebanon not included in ceasefire deal, says Trump

Lebanon is not part of the two-week ceasefire deal, US president Donald Trump has told the media.

Speaking on the phone with PBS News Hour’s Liz Landers, Trump is reported to have said the Israel-Lebanon conflict is a “separate skirmish”.

Middle East crisis live: Trump says Lebanon is 'separate skirmish' to Iran as Israel launches massive strikes on country

12 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Yeah the ceasefire seems to be such a success only Trump could achieve.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/saudi-oil-pipeline-damage-said-145726216.html

A key Saudi oil pipeline to the Red Sea suffered only limited damage from an earlier drone strike on one of its pumping stations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The damage from the strike on Wednesday afternoon was limited and contained, the people said. One of the people said that the pipeline was not shut down as a result of the strike.

Saudi Aramco earlier declined to comment on the strike.

The ceasefire does not include Lebanon.

14 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

The ceasefire does not include Lebanon.

Why you not go sleep Susan instead of breaking your record of posting drivel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabias-east-west-oil-pipeline-hit-iranian-attack-damage-being-assessed-2026-04-08/

April 8 (Reuters) - Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

Why you not go sleep Susan instead of breaking your record of posting drivel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabias-east-west-oil-pipeline-hit-iranian-attack-damage-being-assessed-2026-04-08/

April 8 (Reuters) - Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.

It looks like Iran broke the ceasefire but your tiny brain will blame Trump. Too many saunas.

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

Why you not go sleep Susan instead of breaking your record of posting drivel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabias-east-west-oil-pipeline-hit-iranian-attack-damage-being-assessed-2026-04-08/

April 8 (Reuters) - Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.

Iran's decentralized command structure and degraded communications network is the likely reason. Some units may have not known.

5 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

It looks like Iran broke the ceasefire but your tiny brain will blame Trump. Too many saunas.

You claimed that Lebanon did the attack

6 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Iran's decentralized command structure and degraded communications network is the likely reason. Some units may have not known.

Iran has formally stated the re-closure of the straits are a direct response to Israel’s attack on Lebanon and that the Lebanon is included in the ceasefire deal.

This is not a break down in Iranian command and control, it’s all down to Israeli war mongering.

BBC News

Iran warns it will respond if Israeli attacks on Lebanon...

Israel and the US say Lebanon is not included in a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran. PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel struck "the greatest blow" to Hezbollah in strikes today.

6 hours ago, CallumWK said:

Why you not go sleep Susan instead of breaking your record of posting drivel.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabias-east-west-oil-pipeline-hit-iranian-attack-damage-being-assessed-2026-04-08/

April 8 (Reuters) - Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline just hours after a ceasefire ‌was agreed to pause the Iran war, an industry source told Reuters on Wednesday, hitting its only crude oil export route since hostilities began.

I remember Susan as being more intelligent. This one - not so much.

Yet again , Israel achieves the difficult task of making the Iranians look like the good guys.

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

I remember Susan as being more intelligent. This one - not so much.

It is maybe be that time of month for it!

Zionists terrorists at it again.

They make Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot look like the good guys.

Easily fixed. America shuts off supply of munitions to Israel.

But then, Mossad might just publish the unredacted contents of the Epstein files.

9 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Iran's decentralized command structure and degraded communications network is the likely reason. Some units may have not known.

It's Iran's decentralized command structure which is making life difficult for planners in the Pentagon.

31 minutes ago, JimHuaHin said:

Zionists terrorists at it again.

They make Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot look like the good guys.

You're a racist. Plain and simple.

When are these lunatic Islamists going to learn a life insurance lesson and stop messing with Israel' cos' these guys will permanently punish you, stop firing rockets and acts of terror and go back to killing each other if you have to god speed the IDF and peace🤔

47 minutes ago, JimHuaHin said:

Zionists terrorists at it again.

They make Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot look like the good guys.

War criminals yes, but let’s not get carried away.

The Israeli war crimes are disgusting in their own merit.

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

War criminals yes, but let’s not get carried away.

The Israeli war crimes are disgusting in their own merit.

Ahhh the the self recognized international law expert strikes again.

You don't even realize that while you may think "others get carried away", that you are no better. You enable them, and while not as direct, often deliver the same result.

It is admirable that you wish to raise issues that you consider unjust or perhaps illegal. However, I have observed that you, like so many others focus almost exclusively on Israel. The illegalities of the Islamic centered groups who have continuously attacked and undertaken terrorist attacks and have violated both international and their own local laws is largely ignored.

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Ahhh the the self recognized international law expert strikes again.

Ah I see our resident Zionist arse licker is in denial again, because it doesn't suit his views.

The ICJ has issued arrest warrants for you war criminal hero. You think they are also self-proclaimed law experts?

1 minute ago, CallumWK said:

Ah I see our resident Zionist arse licker is in denial again, because it doesn't suit his views.

The ICJ has issued arrest warrants for you war criminal hero. You think they are also self-proclaimed law experts?

Which criminal hero?

I will take this slow because I realize that you did not have the advantage of an education.

-The ICJ does not issue arrest warrants.

-The ICJ is a civil, not a criminal court.

-An arrest warrant is not a finding of guilt. It is a request to detain and to surrender the named person to the court should they travel to one of the covered territories.

3 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Which criminal hero?

I will take this slow because I realize that you did not have the advantage of an education.

-The ICJ does not issue arrest warrants.

-The ICJ is a civil, not a criminal court.

-An arrest warrant is not a finding of guilt. It is a request to detain and to surrender the named person to the court should they travel to one of the covered territories.

OK I used the wrong acronym, it was the ICC which is somehow related to the ICJ

While they operate separately, they can address the same conflict from different angles. For instance, the ICJ can determine a state's responsibility for genocide, while the ICC prosecutes individuals for that same genocide

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

8 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

I will take this slow because I realize that you did not have the advantage of an education.

I have been to school for free, you obviously for nothing. Doubt you get it though.

And now I'm done with your personal insults

I'd certainly believe the negotiators, Pakistan, before I'd believe the warmongers Israel & America!

5 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I have been to school for free, you obviously for nothing. Doubt you get it though.

And now I'm done with your personal insults

Free? For you, but people paid for that free ride. I most certainly 'get it'. You have repeatedly used the term, "resident Zionist arse licker", and then complain about personal insults? Playing victim when given a reality check is laughable.

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I'd certainly believe the negotiators, Pakistan, before I'd believe the warmongers Israel & America!

You believe anyone if it fits your political agenda. Now Pakistan is conveniently held in high regard? Where were your crocodile tears on March 16 when Pakistan bombed a rehabilitation facility in Kabul, killing a reported 400 patients? Shiite Pakistan provided Shiite Iran with much of the current nuclear components. Pakistan is the country which has repeatedly provoked India. There are limits to its integrity.

20 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

You believe anyone if it fits your political agenda. Now Pakistan is conveniently held in high regard? Where were your crocodile tears on March 16 when Pakistan bombed a rehabilitation facility in Kabul, killing a reported 400 patients? Shiite Pakistan provided Shiite Iran with much of the current nuclear components. Pakistan is the country which has repeatedly provoked India. There are limits to its integrity.

20 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

You believe anyone if it fits your political agenda. Now Pakistan is conveniently held in high regard? Where were your crocodile tears on March 16 when Pakistan bombed a rehabilitation facility in Kabul, killing a reported 400 patients? Shiite Pakistan provided Shiite Iran with much of the current nuclear components. Pakistan is the country which has repeatedly provoked India. There are limits to its integrity.

Sure. But when praise is deserved, don't be afraid to give it. Brokering a ceasefire with good intentions saves some from suffering. It was a good deed done.

Seems like nukes went this way. The UK and Canada developed the platform for the bomb on which they collaborated with the US. The US' Manhattan Project developed both atomic (Hiroshima) and hydrogen (Nagasaki) fission bombs. Volunteer American spies provided the plans to Russia. Now we are two.

After the war, the UK used this platform to build its own bomb, as did France. Now we are four.

India reverse-engineered the UK bomb and South Africa collaborated on the platform covertly with Israel by diverting nuclear materials from the US Atoms for Peace programme.. Now we are seven.

Apartheid South Africa dismantled its nukes before Black rule, the only country to have done so. Now we are six.

Pakistan built the bomb with Indian spies and sold its plans to Iran. Now we are seven.

The Nazis almost had the bomb. But they killed or exiled their best physicists, Jews.

What's one more in the nuclear club? All the UN treaties against the bomb have done zippo because these nine nations can't agree to abolish nukes.

These nine nations are holding the entire world hostage to the threat of annihilation. It's all for none. The insanity is that these countries think the bomb is security, a weapon that no one in their right might would use.

Over the decades, mistakes have been barely avoided. The more bombs, the more chance of mistakes and kissing your ass goodbye.

ONE country needs to dismantle its nukes first. I think that should be the only country to have used the bomb--the US.

19 hours ago, Rockyroad said:

The ceasefire does not include Lebanon.

“I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.”

https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/pakistan-pm-says-us-iran-ceasefire-covers-everywhere-including-lebanon-1.500499605

1 minute ago, MIke B Bad said:

“I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.”

https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/pakistan-pm-says-us-iran-ceasefire-covers-everywhere-including-lebanon-1.500499605

Not according to Israel. They did not agree to it.

4 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Not according to Israel. They did not agree to it.

Their paymaster will have to order them to stop, as he did last October regarding bombing Gaza.

An Israeli airstrike on a government building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Friday killed 13 members of the State Security service, Lebanese authorities said.

Lebanese security sources told dpa that Nabatieh and nearby areas were heavily bombed by dozens of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling.

The General Directorate of State Security said the strike targeted the Nabatieh Government Building, which houses its regional office, adding that those killed were on duty serving citizens amid the ongoing crisis.

Lebanon says Israeli strike killed 13 security personnel