Iran's Foreign Minister has told the UN Security Council that the devastating airstrike on southern Beirut Friday evening was carried out using a US-made "Bunker Buster". The Israeli army has in its arsenal 2,000 kilogram American-made “Bunker Buster” guided bombs designed specifically for hitting subterranean targets.
“The Israeli regime used several 5,000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut,” said Assad Araghchi. “Israel’s warmongering relies on US military support and political backing… therefore, the United States is implicated in every aspect of Israel’s atrocity."
At least six people were killed and 91 injured in the bombing, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The death toll is likely to rise significantly as teams are still combing through the rubble of six buildings.
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Israel Defense Forces jets are delivering strikes near the Beirut international airport, Al Mayadeen television reported.
ReplyDeleteAir traffic has not been suspended, and the airport continues to serve flights, according to the report.
Earlier, the IDF said its Air Force was striking Hezbollah sites in Beirut.
Lebanese daily Al Akhbar has published its Saturday edition. The headline describes the Israeli airstrikes overnight as "total war". The front page uses a picture which appears to show the aftermath of one of the airstrikes, with piles of rubble in the background.
ReplyDeleteIran will take appropriate measures following the Israeli air strike on Hezbollah's underground headquarters in southern Beirut, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said.
ReplyDelete"The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran will take measures in connection with the latest crime of the Zionists (Israel) and will always be on the side of the Lebanese people and the axis of resistance," the Iranian president said in a statement, the Tasnim news agency reported.
The early hours of Saturday morning have seen a renewed assault on Lebanon, with Israeli fighter jets relentlessly bombing the southern suburbs of Beirut.
ReplyDeleteHundreds of families crammed into vehicles and fled Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight into Saturday after Israel struck the area and warned some districts to evacuate, AFP correspondents said.
ReplyDeleteFresh strikes struck Beirut’s southern suburbs early Saturday after huge raids hours before that the Israeli army said targeted Hezbollah’s “central headquarters” in the area.
The Israel Defense Forces have eliminated commanders and militants of the Shiite organization Hezbollah, according to a statement from the IDF press service. The commander of the missile unit, Muhammad Ali Ismail, and his deputy, Hussein Ahmad Ismail, were killed.
ReplyDelete“The Israeli Air Force struck and killed the terrorist Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of the Hezbollah missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy, the terrorist Hussein Ahmad Ismail,” the IDF’s Telegram channel says.
Zainab Nasrallah, the daughter of Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli strike on southern Beirut, Israel’s Channel 12 reports.
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