Massive Israeli airstrikes in Beirut target central Hezbollah HQ, Nasrallah

Just less than thirty minutes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finished his remarks to the UN General Assembly, the Israeli military (IDF) announced major new airstrikes across southern Lebanon, which has included the most intense attacks to date on Beirut's southern suburbs.

Eyewitness say that shortly before 7pm local time, massive explosions rocked Beirut, shaking windows and with blasts felt for miles. Fox News' chief foreign correspondent is reporting that "Fox News has learned the target of the strike on Beirut was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah." Hezbollah sources have been cited in Sky News as saying Nasrallah is in a safe place.

Breaking reports say that Israeli jets have targeted and struck Hezbollah's main command headquarters.

Al Monitor regional correspondent Joyce Karam writes, "Israeli media and Arabiya reporting that target was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah but reportedly failed. Awaiting confirmations...lot of rumors.

An Israeli official has confirmed that Israel notified the US administration just minutes before the new largescale strikes on Beirut. Netanyahu had reportedly left a post-UN press conference early to attend an urgent security meeting.

Mass casualty event:

Unconfirmed initial videos show a massive attack, with a black smoke cloud rising high into the early evening sky at dusk:

It is highly unlikely that Nasrallah was at the location, as his whereabouts have long been the most tightly guarded secret of Hezbollah. The death toll is as yet unknown, but casualties are likely to be significant:

The attack in Beirut's Haret Hreik suburb has erased a complete block, around six to nine buildings were either completely or partially destroyed. We are talking about a residential block close to the International airport of Beirut.

For now, we don't know how many people were killed. But when an attack with such huge explosives, huge rockets is launched towards a residential area, we will expect to see a large number of people killed.

According to initial details via Axios:

Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar Television reported that four buildings in southern Beirut were struck.
Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Adm. Daniel Hagari described the attack as a "precise strike on the central HQ of Hezbollah which was intentionally built under residential buildings in Beirut in order to use them as human shields."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly left a press briefing at the UN after receiving an update from his military adviser.

Images from the scene show a very large attack:

Reader Comments

ReRan · 2024-09-28T21:26:03Z

So this strike on Nasrallah, was he in a school, or a hospital, or a daycare?

Michael L · 2024-09-28T22:12:54Z

ReRan Maybe all three. May the tribe rot in hell for a millenia.

Ned Ludd · 2024-09-28T21:41:07Z

Isreal doesn't have enough army as US Grant once put it. Risk your limited armour and infantry on your enemies home turf. You all couldn't finish Hamas. The Hezi's are dug in so deep, in such numbers they want you to roll forward. Please do it. Let us whack you in close where you can't get away.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-09-29T02:50:38Z

Doubling down dimwit zigaboos will reap what they sow - cause the gamblers fallacy shows - eventually.....well, forget the gambler's fallacy - know this:

Double down one time too many and then you lose everything.

May the zigaboos get their own justice - and for the sake of innocence, let it be swiftly delivered with precision.

Either that - or lets get this shit over with - let all those who allow bullies to harm them perish because turning the other cheek is a fools game and bullies ONLY respond to force directed upon them with Justified Retribution deserved.

So - gambits of despair - efforts to sow chaos - harm upon innocence is par for the course of these criminals who all ought know - only respond to force and if that is the case - let the force be undeniable for the sake of humanity.

Otherwise - there ain't no god out there - no god of mercy - so lets all just die together - and lets get this shit over with.

Buffalo_Ken · 2024-09-29T02:59:36Z

Buffalo_Ken - has net in ya hoo gotten on the plane back from the defunct UN meeting?

The UN is now worthless as are the following entities soon to be toast:

1. The UN - duh.

2. NATO - pathetic - pathetic entity outlived its purpose.

3. The EU - bunch of elitist dipshits.

4. The UK - goes without saying - split the fake kingdom forevermore.

5. The federal gubment out of DC.

6. Canada is pathetic.

7. All the baltic states.

8. The effing the **kraine.

9. Israel - a most hateful place full of zigaboos who know nothing about god.

10. All those in positions to counter this but do nothing.

11. Anybody subsumed by mammon.

12. the count is endless....

~

Pathetic - is net in ya hoo on a plane - if so, perhaps said plane is a legitimate target. Just like the helicopter of the Iranian leader apparently in the minds of bullies.

parzival · 2024-09-29T08:49:11Z

It took Israel ten days to kill Hezbollah's Supreme Leader, eliminate its entire military general staff, maim or kill its whole officer corps, utterly destroy Hezbollah's command and control structure and obliterate its communication system. All that is left of Hezbollah are some dazed and confused foot soldiers wandering around Beirut not knowing what to do. This war is over. Hezbollah no longer exists. There is no need for a UN brokered cease fire. A couple of weeks of Israelis mopping things up and its over.How did this happen so fast? Lebanese spies and infiltrators reporting on Hezbollah's every move, every decision and every location. The Lebanese wanted their country back. And now they have it back.

VonCraq · 2024-09-29T12:35:24Z

parzival Sadly you must not be studying middle East history...there will never be peace... tribal warfare there from the gulf of Persia to Northern Africa will continue...

you might want to read Albert Pikes prophecy of the 3 great world wars... Lebanon has a war zone for decades, like Syria, Iraq, Palestine...it will not stop.

Sim · 2024-09-29T09:07:00Z

The octopus cult are sick

While they claim a spirituality and the authority of a creator God they are in fact the ultimate expression of materialism and are actually evil

They believe in nothing except for what they can get. Morality is nothing to them but a useful tool for manipulation