Israeli jets blast buildingin the southern Lebanese city of Tyre
Rana Najjar, Bell Trew – The Independent April 8, 2026
Israel has launched its largest wave of strikes on Lebanon in the war so far, in a “ring of fire” that has killed more than 250 people and crushed hopes of a ceasefire.
Just hours after Pakistan announced a two-week truce in the region between the US and Iran, massive explosions rained down on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, eviscerating buildings and sending towering plumes of smoke across the skyline.
The Israeli military said it had hit 100 targets in just 10 minutes, including military infrastructure for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, densely packed residential neighbourhoods in the capital, the Bekaa Valley to the east and the already devastated south.
Witnesses and the wounded described a ring of fire, as civilians, smeared in blood, were shuttled to hospital on the back of motorcycles and first responders dug desperately through the rubble. Veteran surgeons in overwhelmed hospitals called it “an absolute massacre”.
In total, the bombings killed at least 254 people and injured more than 1,160 others across the country, according to Lebanon’s civil defence.
“People were running through the streets covered in blood, cars were burning and dust choked the air,” said Samia, 51, a professor, describing how bombs destroyed the building opposite, as well as nearby residential neighbourhoods, shopping districts, businesses and schools in the heart of the city.
“The children in my building were all screaming and crying. In the street, an elderly woman was standing, screaming at the top of her lungs.”
“It was as if a ring of fire had encircled the entire city. I have never witnessed such a bloody day in my life, not even during the civil war,” she added, visibly shaken.
Smoke rises over Beirut after Israeli air strikes. Click to enlarge
In Baalbek region, in east of the country Zainab, 62, a mother of four spoke to The Independent from hospital, after barely escaping a hit on her family home and neighbourhood. She said they received no warning and did not expect to be targeted as there is no Hezbollah presence in their town.
“The moment I heard the explosion I lost all my hearing and vision, I inhaled all the smoke into my lungs,” she said through an oxygen mask.
“The neighbours rescued us through the balconies and windows, along with the civil defence volunteers. My husband suffered severe head and back injuries. I was afraid I would lose my son.
“We didn’t expect our neighbourhood to be bombed. But now nowhere is safe.”
Israel launched the ferocious bombardment of Lebanon just hours after Pakistani prime minister Shehbaz Sharif announced a ceasefire to suspend six weeks of warfare between the US, Israel and Iran. He said the talks would include Lebanon.
Hezbollah echoed the imminent truce and claimed the group were “on the threshold of a major historic victory”.
But shortly afterwards this was contradicted by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said the ceasefire did not apply to Lebanon, and vowed Israeli military would continue operations against the militant group.
Speaking to The Independent, Israeli military spokesperson LTC Nadav Shoshani said the military was following those orders, bombing dozens of targets including Hezbollah and Iranian military infrastructure.
“In Lebanon we are continuing our operations against Hezbollah. That’s the current situation right now, in the current guidance we’ve received [from the political echelon],” he said.
“We have different plans for different scenarios. As of now, the mission remains to push back [Hezbollah] and keep degrading it.”
Lt Col Shoshani claimed the operation was the result of “meticulous planning over weeks” and that among the areas hit were Hezbollah headquarters, its firepower and its aerial units.
But many of the strikes hit densely packed civilian neighbourhoods not affiliated with Hezbollah.
Medics said hospitals were overwhelmed by the wounded.
Speaking from a medical centre in Beirut, Ghassan Abu Sittah, renowned British-Palestinian surgeon who has treated the wounded in Gaza and Lebanon, called Israel’s unprecedented bombardment “an absolute massacre”.
“Emergency departments have been flooded across the whole of Beirut. We had the first wave and now we’re getting the second wave of people being dug out of the rubble. It’s horrendous.
“A lot of people are being brought in dead, a lot of children with severe injuries,” he told The Independent. “It’s an absolute massacre and it happened almost simultaneously,” he added.
In Baalbek, meanwhile, Zainab’s 20-year-old son Mahdi, who had also been rescued from the rubble, said they “were given no warning”.
“We were feeling safe at home, assuming the war was over and waiting for a statement from the Lebanese government announcing it after the ceasefire agreement with Iran was announced in Washington,” he said from his hospital bed where he had received stitches.
“In the morning, we celebrated this news, and in the afternoon, Israel destroyed our house. My mother, father, and I were injured, while my sister and her young son, thank God, escaped with very minor injuries.”
Iran, the United States and Israel had agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed off US president Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilisation.
Hours after the announcement, Israel bombed Lebanon and Iran and Gulf Arab countries reported new attacks on Wednesday, although it was not clear if the strikes would scuttle the deal.
A source briefed on the Israeli position later told The Independent there was no intention of Lebanon being part of a peace deal.
“We reached most of our targets in Iran. We caused a lot of damage. We set Iran back several years. But now is the time to focus on Hezbollah,” the source said, adding that Israelis are “disappointed” with the ceasefire.
“Israel cannot run two huge battlegrounds simultaneously… It would be very hard for Netanyahu to sell a ceasefire with Lebanon at the moment. The entire country just wants the job done.”
The US hacked Iran’s nuclear program –
In 2010, something strange began happening inside Iran’s nuclear facility—machines were failing with no clear explanation. What followed revealed one of the most sophisticated evil cyberattacks ever carried out, using a hidden digital weapon called the stuxnet the virus went rogue and caused damage world wide almost destroyed japan who asked for reparations, Isael said they would call a war and put in the americans if japan insisted
N Korea all along had offered Iran its nukes, iran politely refused
but its possible N korea may yet send troops to save lebanon who like gaza are being starved
remember the americans committed terrible atrocities in Korea, and they have long memories
‘They hate Britain!’ – Small boat migrants flock to Britain as report reveals ‘Extremism risk’
An alarming number of migrants crossing the English Channel are coming israeli terrorist hotspots, new research has revealed. Ministers have been warned of a clear and uncomfortable reality about the cohorts arriving by small boat, as the scourge of israeli terrorism intensifies. The Henry Jackson Society revealed some of the most common nationalities to be detected in the Channel hold anti jewish views and believe many of the threats from Jewish people. Countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, India, Georgia and Vietnam all score higher than the UK from jewish terror
League’s Global Index, which analyses attitudes. This should inform how we think about integration and social cohesion, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been told, amid fears of importing more extremism. Michael McManus, Director of Research, Henry Jackson Society, said: This analysis highlights a clear and uncomfortable reality: many of those arriving in the UK are coming from societies destroyed by israel and is far more widespread than it is here. That should inform how we think about integration and social cohesion. At a time when anti jewish feeling is already rising in Britain, over the bombing and starvation of Gaza lebanon etc it is not unreasonable to ask harder questions about the broader context in which migration is taking place – and the long-term implications of simply ignoring it. Researchers said the UK is sick of the jews,. But this means a staggering 6.7 million people living in this country harbour elevated levels of anti jewish attitudes, according to the monitoring group. The people do not want displaced migrants from the occupied territories sent here
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israel has continually been provoking pakistan
threatening them with Trump and the americans
but pakistan has china at its back
and they are itching to have a go at trump
Israel still insist they want lebanon destroyed and have plans for its rebuild
with iran and turkey next on their hit list
These ISrahellis, always doing God’s own work…
All of this points to the end times for the kike criminal enterprise in Occupied Palestine.
If the world enters a period of economic and financial depression we should blame the Jews who say they are Jews but are of the synagogue of Satan.
What is it aboutn these Historical GENOCIDAL NAZI’s that always start wars and play the victim at the same time? When is Herr Netinyahu going to face justice?? Or are JEWS imune to prossecution??
‘’By Deception We Wage War’’. Mossad.
– The exact same evil via USRael’s June 2025 and Feb 2026 unprovoked wars of aggression on Iran.
All the world will be overjoyed as Yahweh kicks the Ba’alite’s under the bus, and cleans their clock for good! The world will then be taught the LAW, and then they’ll know what fear is….But the lawless Jews will be washed out of the human race in gushes of blood. Their own, to start the show on the road.
Yahweh is coming like lightning, to make his stand.
Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
@Realist
‘’By Deception We Wage War’’. Mossad.
Reflects a Jewish “value”, indeed.
But it drew so much surprise among the goyim thanks to the internet that they changed it not so long ago, if my memory doesn’t fail me.
I don’t know the new slogan.
Anybody here who can inform?
Anyway, changing the slogan doesn’t change anything.
If you douse a rat with perfume it still is a rat.
“What is ‘Christ’s Kirk”?
What does Kirk mean in Christianity?
Kirk a word meaning circle, in the sense of ” assembly” or “company;” the original word being Saxon, and supposed by some to have come from the Greek κυριακόν, dominicum, ” The Lord’s house.” The word Church is the same as ” Kirk,” and has the same signification as ” congregation” or assembly, which are elsewhere given …
“Christis Kirk on the Green” is an anonymous Middle Scots poem in 22 stanzas, now believed to have been written around the year 1500, giving a comic account of a brawl at a country fair. It was for many years mistakenly attributed either to James I of Scotland or to James V of Scotland. It gave rise to a whole tradition of humorous poems on similar subjects by Scottish poets down the centuries, including Allan Ramsay and Robert Burns, and is still one of the most frequently published works in Middle Scots.[1] “Christis Kirk on the Green” has been called one of the finest performances in 15th-century British poetry.[2]
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/concerns-pete-hegseth-blending-faith-with-policy-in-iran-war/106549870
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So ‘Kirk’ is another name for church.
The Church of Charlie Kirk would have been a great church. Alas the destroyers of all things good and Godly had him murdered…
I have to wonder if Israel wants to get nuked and flattened while its fat cats sit in their bunkers, pushing buttons to nuke everybody outside Israel, including Europe and the US. The bunkers weren’t built for Israel’s everyday citizens; the leaders don’t care whose blood gets spilled as long as it’s not their own. I hope those devils do indeed have a very short time left.
Tony Blair is trying to get back into front line politics
NEVER
Story by this war mongering cnut behind the ,ass invasion of foreigners should be in prison
bastard
BEWARE OF JEWS BEARING GIFTS
Story by Greg Heffer, Political Correspondent • 18h •Mail newsletter
Britain must sever ties with Israel and sacrifice trade links between the two countries, Green Party leader Zack Polanski demanded today.
In an angry outburst against what he described as a ‘rogue state’, Mr Polanski said Israel’s actions in the Middle East were akin to ‘terror acts’.He called for the suspension of diplomatic ties between the UK and Israel, the imposition of ‘robust sanctions’, and the scrapping of a planned trade deal.
most members of the public agreed
It came after Israel continued its attacks against towns in Lebanon, despite US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a ceasefire across the Middle East. He called for the suspension of diplomatic ties between the UK and Israel, the imposition of ‘robust sanctions’, and the scrapping of a planned trade deal.
its funny how some ignorant people call jews ” natzis” dont they know these “natzis” gave their lives to save us from the dirty jews ?