Has Israel bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs with "depleted uranium" munitions?
According to the Israeli army, 80 ‘bunker buster’ bombs were dropped during the September 27 strike that killed the Secretary-General of Hezbollah. | Most Beirut residents probably still have that deep rumble etched in their memory. Exactly two weeks after the first strike hit the bunker where Hassan Nasrallah was hiding, Israeli air forces dropped a new payload of several dozen "bunker busters" on Beirut's southern suburbs at exactly midnight on Friday. These bombs are designed to explode after deeply penetrating the ground. ● The staggered explosions, which shake walls for kilometers around, also produce large plumes of smoke, indicating the power of the explosives. According to the Israeli army, no fewer than "80 tons" of explosives were dropped on September 27 by eight F-15 jets on at least four residential buildings of at least seven stories. This unprecedented operation in Lebanon was launched to assassinate the Hezbollah leader, who was reportedly in a bunker buried nearly three meters deep. It also caused over a hundred civilian casualties, according to estimates from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.