As Israeli attacks continue to escalate, the death toll of their current war on Lebanon has been soaring, with the Lebanese Health Ministry reporting today that 394 people have been killed since Monday, including at least 83 children.
Among the latest strikes was an incident in central Beirut overnight Sunday, in which Israeli warplanes attacked a hotel housing a large number of displaced civilians fleeing the war. That and other overnight strikes left at least 15 people dead and 15 wounded.
The hotel was in the normally touristy part of Beirut around Raouche, and because of the extra space it was a place a lot of people were fleeing to. The strike killed at least four people and wounded 10 others. It’s the second attack on a Beirut hotel this week, with the previous attack targeting the Comfort Hotel in the Christian majority suburbs of the city, killing 11.
A man inspects damage buildings after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon, March 7, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Stringer
One of the deadliest strikes was in the southern village of Sir al-Gharbiyeh, an area just north of the Litani River. Since Israel has ordered everyone out of the area south of the river, the mayor of the village reported hundreds of families have fled there. The strike killed one such family, leveling a small house they were staying in and killing all within.
Israeli officials reiterated the order for everyone to withdraw from the area south of the Litani River, though clearly this strike and others underscore that Israel doesn’t view the river as any functional boundary and are just as comfortable attacking civilians who have fled, as instructed, to the other side of the river.
Israeli troops suffered their first fatalities inside Lebanon Sunday as well, with troops crossing onto the Lebanese side of the border near the kibbutz of Manara. The armored personnel carrier got stuck after crossing the border, and the IDF sent military bulldozers to dig it out. Hezbollah hit one of the bulldozers with a rocket, starting a fire that left two Israeli soldiers dead and one wounded.
The IDF reported that they had carried out over 600 attacks on Lebanon since Monday, and claimed to have killed some 200 Hezbollah figures. While that figure is as yet unverified, it still suggests that roughly half on the people they’ve killed since resuming the strikes are not Hezbollah.
