On April 8, 2026, at 14:15 local time, Israel began large-scale airstrikes against Lebanon. This came just hours after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran to stop fighting in the Gulf region.
Israel said it hit 100 targets in 10 minutes. This dashed hopes that a halt to fighting in Iran would end violence in Lebanon.
The latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia and political party funded and armed by Iran, began on March 2 after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel, to which Hezbollah responded with widespread airstrikes and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
More than 2,600 people have died in Lebanon since then, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, and the United Nations says about a fifth of the country’s refugees have become refugees.
The BBC’s Nawal Al-Maghafi pieced together what happened that day and met those who lost loved ones in one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s recent history.
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