{"id":76958,"date":"2026-04-08T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/israel-operations-in-lebanon-to-continue-despite-trump-ceasefire-iran-pakistan-hezbollah"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:52:56","slug":"israel-hits-lebanon-with-massive-wave-of-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76958","title":{"rendered":"At least 254 killed after Israel hits Lebanon with massive wave of airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Largest coordinated strike\u2019 against Hezbollah since war began prompts warnings Iran could pull out of ceasefire<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/09\/iran-war-ceasefire-live-strait-of-hormuz-israel-strikes-middle-east-crisis-latest-news\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel has carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 254 people and wounding 837, an assault that prompted Iranian officials to warn Tehran could withdraw from the ceasefire agreed with the US overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Warplanes levelled several buildings in the centre of Beirut, filling the skies with smoke in what Israel\u2019s defence minister said was \u201ca surprise strike\u201d on the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/08\/israel-operations-in-lebanon-to-continue-despite-trump-ceasefire-iran-pakistan-hezbollah\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Largest coordinated strike\u2019 against Hezbollah since war began prompts warnings Iran could pull out of ceasefireMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesIsrael has carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1247,415,3041,448,1005,869,212,60,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-donald-trump","category-hezbollah","category-iran","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76958\/revisions\/76974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}