The New Dark Age

Wednesday, 8 April 2026 — Al Mayadeen English

The Lebanese Civil Defense announced that 254 people were martyred and 1,165 others were injured in this afternoon’s Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

It detailed that the toll is distributed as follows:
– Beirut: 92 martyrs and 742 injured
– Beirut’s Southern Suburb: 61 martyrs and 200 injured
– Baalbek: 18 martyrs and 28 injured
– Hermel: 9 martyrs and 6 injured
– Nabatieh: 28 martyrs and 59 wounded
– Alay: 17 martyrs, 6 injured
– Saida: 12 martyrs, 56 injured
– Tyre: 17 martyrs and 68 injured

The General Directorate of the Civil Defense added that its teams are continuing their search and rescue operations, while also clearing debris at several sites, suggesting that the “death toll is likely to rise as field operations proceed.”

It further called on “citizens to cooperate with the teams working in the field and allow them to perform their duties to the best of their ability.”

Wednesday, 8 April 2026 — The Cradle

❗️Statement issued by Hezbollah:

“Driven by blind hatred, entrenched criminality, and boundless brutality that has become inherent to its nature, the Israeli enemy today carried out a wave of massacres against civilians, targeting residential areas with dozens of violent airstrikes in the southern suburbs, Beirut, Sidon, the south, and the Bekaa, leaving hundreds of martyrs and wounded, including children, women, and the elderly.

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