At least four killed in Israeli strike on hotel in central Beirut, Lebanon says

At least four people have been killed and ten others wounded after a Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

The attack was unusual in that it hit the heart of central Beirut, rather than the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs where the vast majority of Israeli airstrikes have taken place since Lebanon was pulled into the latest conflict.

Shortly afterwards, the Israel Defense Forces said it had “conducted a precise strike” targeting key commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps who operated in Beirut.

“Prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munition and aerial surveillance,” the IDF said in a statement.

The statement did not say whether the strike they were referencing was the same as the one that hit the Ramada hotel. CNN is reaching out to the IDF for comment.