Photos capture moment bomb launched from an Israeli jet hits a building in Beirut

(22 Oct 2024)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: SHOTLIST AND STORYLINE AMENDED. IT WAS A BOMB NOT A MISSILE THAT STRUCK THE BUILDING/PLEASE NOT ADDITIONAL STILL ALSO ADDED AT SHOT 5. STORY WAS FIRST RUN TUESDAY OCTOBER 22 AND RESENT AT 1050 GMT OCTOBER 23++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon - 22 October 2024
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1. Various STILLS of bomb launched from an Israeli jet hitting a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
2. STILL shows people ducking down as missile hits the building (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
3. Various STILLS of explosion as bomb hits building (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
4. Various STILLS of people watching, smoke rising as building collapses (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
5. Wide of people, including man with arms raised, watching smoke rising after explosion
6. Wide of smoke rising
STORYLINE:
AP photos capture the moment a missile launched from an Israeli jet hits a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Ghobeiry on Tuesday, as bystanders then watch the building fall to the ground.

The strike came 40 minutes after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a warning in Arabic on social media, notifying people in and around a pair of buildings on Beirut’s southern outskirts that that they should evacuate the area.

He did not explain why the buildings were being targeted, other than to say they were near “interests and facilities” associated with the Hezbollah militant group.

The warning prompted many people to flee the busy, densely populated neighbourhood, even as others, including a few journalists, kept watch.

By the time of the attack the building was evacuated and there were no reports of casualties on Tuesday.

Minutes before the bomb brought down the building, two smaller projectiles were fired at the roof in what Israel’s military often refers to as warning strikes, according to AP journalists at the scene.

It is a practice Israel has followed in staging strikes in Gaza during past wars.

When the primary bomb hurtled toward the building Tuesday it was a blur, but AP photographer Bilal Hussein’s camera provided witness.

One picture showed the bomb arching through the air. Another captured it a fragment of a second before it smashed through a lower-floor balcony. In the images that followed, a cloud of smoke and debris billowed outward as the building collapsed.

Hussein, who has spent years covering conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon since joining the AP in 2004, says he has become accustomed to the sounds of explosions. ]

The night before the building was destroyed, he filmed more than a dozen Israeli strikes nearby.

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