Israel Executes 'Precise Strike' On 6 - 9 Residential High Rise Buildings, Levels Them

Zerohedge has a pretty good updated account of the Israel strike on Beirut.

Tehran Checking Nasrallah's Status After Massive Israeli Strike Targeting Hezbollah HQ

Obviously everything is speculative, subject to disinformation and/or wishful thinking from both sides. One thing is clear: Israel—as per Holy War doctrine—has targeted and killed a large number of civilians. I’ll offer here a few excerpts:

Some Israeli reports are claiming Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed or at least injured. Other reports claim his top deputy was taken out. At least six buildings were leveled in the attack.

A senior Iranian security officials has told Reuters that Tehran is checking Nasrallah's status.

Here’s a tentative claim from a well known war correspondent that Nasrallah is alive. Or is maybe alive:

Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

Waiting for al-Manar or #Hezbollah to confirm or deny the news about Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's fate. Regardless, #Hezbollah is not led by one man but by an organisation and an organised irregular army.

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Elijah J. Magnier @ejmalrai

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#Hezbollah's Secretary General is alive said Tansim agency, #Israel opened the gates of hell on Tel Aviv and gave Hezbollah the perfect reason to retaliate against residential blocks and raze them to the ground, as Israel did in this possibly failed indiscriminate assassination

12:38 PM · Sep 27, 2024

Make of that what you will. We’ll find out soon enough is my guess.

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.

Charles Lister @Charles_Lister

While attention fixates on the fate of #Hezbollah leader Hassan #Nasrallah, bear in mind that flattening 6+ high-rise apartment buildings, without prior notice/evacuation, means 100s of casualties. This is a mass casualty event, whatever #Hezbollah losses.

11:26 AM · Sep 27, 2024

This next statement seems plausible, but you just never know.

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.

Oil is spiking on the news, given this represents peak escalation after a week of increasingly heavier fighting...

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."

OK, but that must also mean that the fact that virtually all of Israel’s military establishment is located in Tel Aviv means that Israel is using Tel Aviv as a large human shield.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender

Roads have Collapsed causing Craters, over 200 Meters from the Site of the Israeli Airstrike on the Dahieh Suburb of Beirut.

12:04 PM · Sep 27, 2024