BEIRUT, March 8 (Reuters) – At least four people were killed when an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said, the first strike to hit the heart of the capital since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last week.
Ten people were also injured in the strike in Beirut’s Raouche area, the health ministry said in a statement.
The hotel was housing displaced people fleeing the war in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, and some were seen leaving the building for fear of further airstrikes.
No further details were immediately available. There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Lebanon was pulled into the widening U.S.-Israel war with Iran on Monday after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into Israel. Israel responded with heavy strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon and near Beirut.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam, Writing by Hatem Maher, Editing by Franklin Paul and Diane Craft)
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