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Israeli strike hits Ramada Plaza hotel in central Beirut; Iran says diplomats killed

Mar 10th 2026

An early morning Israeli strike on the Ramada Plaza in Raouche damaged the fourth floor and killed several Iran-linked figures, with Israel calling them Quds Force operatives and Iran saying they were embassy staff; casualty counts and accounts of the dead differ.

  • The strike hit the Ramada Plaza in Raouche around 01:30 and damaged the hotel's fourth floor.
  • The Israel Defense Forces said five men killed were Quds Force operatives involved in funding and intelligence for Hezbollah.
  • Iran told the UN that four of those killed were Iranian embassy staff and condemned the attack as an assassination of diplomats.
  • The Lebanese health ministry reported four dead and 10 injured, and bystanders and displaced people staying at the hotel were among the casualties.
  • The attack was the first to hit Beirut city centre in this renewed fighting, which has displaced nearly 700,000 people in Lebanon and prompted Lebanon's prime minister to seek arrest and deportation of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members

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