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The IDF targeted Iranian commanders in the Ramada hotel in Beirut’s central Rauoche neighborhood early on Sunday, killing four and injuring ten others. 

The attack, described by the Israeli Army as a targeting “Quds Force's Lebanon Corps,” represents the first Israeli strike to hit the heart of Beirut since hostilities resumed last week. The hotel and broader neighborhood have become a hotspot for displaced people fleeing recent evacuation orders, according to Reuters.

Raids also continued on the southern suburbs of Beirut, following renewed evacuation orders. One strike, on the Hreit Harek neighborhood, appears to have targeted Qud’s Force members as well, according to Nidaa al-Watan.

In the south, an Israeli evacuation order on four towns in Nabatieh was followed by intense bombardment, including on a three story building which killed 19 people. Airstrikes continued in Tebnine, in Shaaitiyeh near Tyre, and on a house in Aaitit, with casualties reported in the latter two, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Tehran

Simultaneous attacks roiled Tehran overnight, with the Israeli military confirming that it hit fuel storage facilities in the Iranian capital. Other strikes targeted oil facilities in the neighboring city of Karaj.

The facilities are used to supply the capital and neighboring northern provinces, according to Reuters. According to the Associated Press, this appears to be the first time a civilian industrial facility has been targeted in the war, with the IDF spokesperson stressing that Iran uses the fuel to operate military infrastructure.

President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed to continue retaliatory strikes and to make the nation’s enemies “pay the price” for attacking it.

The death toll continues to rise with at least 1,230 people killed in Iran, 300 in Lebanon, and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials in the respective countries.