Israeli media reported that the munitions used in the attack were US-made, MK84 ‘bunker-buster’ bombs, and that the target was Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah
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The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that the munitions used in the attack were US-made, MK84 ‘bunker-buster’ bombs and weighed one ton.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that at least two people were killed and 76 wounded in the initial toll. However, countless bodies are currently under the rubble.
”Our personnel are working to extinguish the fire that broke out in the southern suburbs of Beirut and continue to evacuate the injured and retrieve the martyrs," the Lebanese Civil Defense said.
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters that "the United States was not involved in this operation, and we had no advanced warning," but then went on to say that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was in contact with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant “as the operation was already underway.”
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that the target of the massive attack was an underground "central Hezbollah headquarters."
Israeli media later reported that the target of the attack was Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah media relations official Muhammad Afif told Iranian TV that “His Eminence the Secretary-General is fine and well, and was not at the targeted location.”
Tasnim News Agency, citing Lebanese sources, reported that no senior leaders of Hezbollah were killed in the Israeli attack.
Israeli newspaper Maariv said, citing Israeli officials, that the assassination was “successful.”
Hours after the widescale attack, the British government called on UK nationals in Lebanon to leave immediately.
The brutal bombing was carried out shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly in New York.
This is a developing story.
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