Lebanon is counting its ᴅᴇᴀᴅ after one of the bloodiest nights of the war, with around 400 people reported killed nationwide as Israeli warplanes unleashed a sweeping wave of strikes and a Beirut H๏τel allegedly used by Iran’s IRGC was blasted open, officials and witnesses say.

The attack on the seafront H๏τel in west Beirut sent glᴀss, concrete and furniture cascading onto the street as a precision bomb tore through the upper floors. The IDF claims the building housed IRGC liaison officers and Hezbollah commanders who “fled minutes before impact,” touting the raid as proof the Guard is “running away from the front.” Lebanese security sources counter that any Iranian officials had left days earlier, calling the strike “purely punitive” for the civilians and staff inside.

Across Lebanon, from Beirut’s southern suburbs to Tyre, Nabatieh and the Bekaa Valley, airstrikes flattened apartment blocks, command posts and suspected rocket depots. Hospitals say they are overwhelmed, morgues are overflowing and entire families are still missing beneath the rubble. The government’s early nationwide tally of roughly 400 ᴅᴇᴀᴅ and hundreds more wounded is expected to rise as rescue teams dig through collapsed buildings.

Israel insists it is targeting “Iran’s forward operating base” on Lebanese soil, arguing that every hit degrades the IRGC–Hezbollah war machine. But as images of a shattered H๏τel lobby, burning neighbourhoods and shell‑shocked survivors flood Arab media, pressure is mounting on regional powers and global diplomats to answer a brutal question: has Israel’s search for IRGC commanders now crossed the line into a campaign that Lebanon itself may not survive?