On Friday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in Beirut in a fiery explosion. It has emerged that the Jewish state reportedly destroyed a secret active nuclear weapons research facility during a retaliatory attack on Iran last month.
The latest airstrike destroyed a high-rise building near one of Beirut’s busiest intersections and rattled the Lebanese capital as Israel continued its heavy shelling of Hezbollah-held areas across the city.
The attack near Tayune, one of several carried out by Israel on Friday morning, quickly reduced buildings to a cloud of burning rubble, prompting dramatic photos and videos.
Prior to the airstrikes, the Israeli military issued a warning on social media identifying buildings in the southern suburbs where residents should evacuate because of their proximity to Hezbollah facilities.
Separately, rescuers searched for missing people in the rubble near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon on Friday after an Israeli military attack on a civil defense center the night before killed at least 13 people. was.
Those killed in the strike were employees and volunteers of emergency services agencies, Lebanon’s civil defense agency said.
The incident comes as Israel continues to step up attacks inside Lebanon as its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies.
Meanwhile, Axios, citing multiple U.S. and Israeli officials, revealed that a secret operating Iranian nuclear weapons research facility was among the targets destroyed in Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran last month. reported that the latest attack had taken place.
The paper said the attack on Parchin’s facility, which was previously reported to be inactive, resulted in “sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives needed to surround and detonate uranium in nuclear devices.” is said to have been destroyed.
Iran denies pursuing nuclear weapons, but officials said last month’s attack severely undermined a year-long effort to restart the country’s research.
Parchin base was one of two secret military bases targeted by Israel in the October 25 attack.
Aerial photos released in the aftermath showed entire buildings at the base destroyed.
Israel claimed at the time that the base was targeted by a facility believed to be involved in manufacturing missiles that Tehran used in an attack on the Jewish state earlier this year.
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