{"id":45630,"date":"2026-04-09T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45630"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:31:28","slug":"israeli-strikes-pummel-lebanon-killing-250-in-deadliest-day-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israeli-strikes-pummel-lebanon-killing-250-in-deadliest-day-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes pummel Lebanon, killing 250 in deadliest day of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters:\u00a0 Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, killing more than 250 people on Wednesday, as the Iran-aligned group resumed rocket attacks on northern Israel after a brief pause under the two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes \u200braised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian saying a ceasefire in Lebanon was an essential condition of his country&#8217;s agreement with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, at least five consecutive strikes rocked the capital \u200cBeirut, sending columns of smoke into the sky as Israel&#8217;s military said it had launched the largest coordinated strike of the war. More than 100 Hezbollah command centres and military sites were targeted in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon within ten minutes, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 254 people were killed and over 1,100 wounded across Lebanon, the country&#8217;s civil defence service said. The highest toll was in Beirut, where 91 people were killed. The health ministry gave a toll of 182 dead across the country and said it was not a final figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters:\u00a0 Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, killing more than 250 people on Wednesday, as the Iran-aligned group resumed rocket attacks on northern Israel after a brief pause under the two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The strikes \u200braised questions about regional truce efforts, with Iranian President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45632,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630\/revisions\/45632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}