Al Arabiya: Beirut Explosion was a Hezbollah Weapons Depot

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

At least 70 people have now been confirmed to have been killed, with over 3,700 injured as the casualty toll continues to mount from the massive explosions that rocked Lebanon’s capital of Beirut on Tuesday. The explosions took place at the city’s shipping port, and the cause is still under investigation.

Many residents with views of the port began using their cell phone to take video of a massive smoke plume that was being caused by hundreds of smaller explosions coming from a warehouse along the docks. Videographers miles away were then rocked when a massive explosion devastated the area immediately around the port and broke windows up to 15 miles distant.

Immediate speculation centered around the likelihood that the warehouse from which the hundreds of smaller explosions emanated may have been filled with fireworks, and that those explosions then caused a ship also loaded with fireworks to explode. But Al Arabiya reported late Tuesday afternoon that the warehouse was actually an arms depot for the terrorist group Hezbollah, which unfortunately essentially runs the national government.

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Government officials claimed the depot held “explosive materials” that had been seized by the government in recent years. From a report at the New York Times:

“Highly explosive materials,” seized by the government years ago, were stored where the explosions occurred, said Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon’s general security service, according to the National News Agency.

President Michel Aoun later confirmed that explosive substances were held there. Neither of them said what those materials were, but General Ibrahim warned against getting “ahead of the investigation” and speculating about a terrorist act.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab said in a televised statement, “Facts on this dangerous depot, which has existed since 2014 or the past six years, will be announced.”

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Here are photos and a video taken of the port shortly after the explosion:

Here is a compilation of various citizen videos taken of the incident:

Pray for the people of Beirut.

That is all.

[McGruff]

Quick Before and after video of the explosion site in Beirut

https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1290967173872209921

[Mark17]

Bibi is a that you?

Could very well be. Mossad tends to blow weapons depots up, regularly. I don’t know anything about explosives, but I’m not buying the fireworks story. 🤪👎

[teeman8r]

that secondary explosion did massive damage...

https://videos.whatfinger.com/2020/08/04/holy-cow-wait-for-it-secondary-explosion-what-could-do-this-beirut-you-know-the-deaths-will-mount/

they blowed up reeeeeeeeeal goooooooood.