A video captured the moment when a airstrike flattened a high-rise apartment building in Lebanon’s Beirut that Israeli officials said was used by Hezbollah.
Video footage obtained from the New York Post shows a set of buildings surrounded by smoke. A loud explosion can be heard as one of the buildings collapses. The street can be seen in chaos as people react to the strike.
A photograph obtained by the The Associated Press shows a projectile in mid-air moments before it strikes a building.
AP PHOTOS: An AP photographer captures a bomb falling on a building in his childhood neighborhood https://t.co/GHhvnP8pKJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2024
The airstrike levelled a high-rise building in Beirut’s Tayouneh neighborhood, according to the NYP.
Israeli military authorities said the building in question boasted facilities operated by Hezbollah, according to the AP. Lebanese Civil Defense said the bombing killed emergency services agency workers and volunteers, the NYP reported.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they provided warnings on social media prior to the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducting strikes in Beirut. The IDF claimed these strikes targeted sites linked to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. (RELATED: FACT CHECK: Image Claims To Show Beirut On Fire After Israeli Airstrikes)
⭕️ The IAF conducted intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah terrorist targets in Dahieh, a key Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut where terrorist infrastructure is systematically embedded.
Prior to the strikes, aerial surveillance and numerous advanced warnings were issued to the… pic.twitter.com/QAwuDzvTr3
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 15, 2024
The IDF also bombed an operational Iranian nuclear weapons research center, Taleghan 2, in Parchin on Oct. 25, current and former U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios. Equipment employed to produce the plastic explosives used to detonate nuclear weapons was destroyed in the strike, a former Israeli official said.
Iran has long denied efforts to produce nuclear weapons. The facility was a facet of Iran’s Amad nuclear weapons initiative that the country ostensibly shut down in 2003, according to the outlet. Images obtained by the Institute for Science and International Security showed extensive damage to Taleghan 2.
