People staying in hotel in southeastern Beirut suburb say strike that hit it came without warning

Описание: (4 Mar 2026)
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Hazmieh, Lebanon - 4 March 2026
1. Various of damage to the Comfort Hotel
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abbas Najdah, displaced person from Tyre:
“By God, no one knew anything. We were sleeping peacefully, then suddenly I, my children and my wife were thrown away. We found ourselves almost lifted up from the strength of it. We didn’t know anything, not even what the sound was. And there was no warning at all."
3. Various of people carrying belongings, leaving damaged hotel
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maggie Shibli, wife of the owner of the Hotel Comfort:
“We were sleeping when the missile hit. It is what it is. What can I even say? What can I even say? It has become normalized. We live in a country where a missile can fall on your head at any moment. It's as simple as that. That's all I can say really."
5. Various of damage, debris
6. Various of Lebanese soldiers
STORYLINE:
People staying in a hotel in a southeastern suburb of Beirut said the strike that hit the second floor came without warning.

Abbas Najdeh, who was displaced from the southern port city of Tyre and was staying at the Hotel Comfort in the Hazmieh neighborhood, said “We were sleeping, then suddenly I, my children and my wife were thrown away.”

He added there was no warning.

Maggie Shibli, wife of the owner of the hotel, said they were sleeping when the missile hit.

“We live in a country where a missile can fall on your head at any moment,” she said.

AP Video shot by Fadi Tawil and mahammad Aonti, produced by Kareen Chehayeb

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