UPDATE:
President Trump says the explosion was an attack.
REPORTER: Are you confident the #Beirut explosion was an attack?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "…I've met with some of our great generals & they seem to feel that it was." — "They would know better than I would. They seem to think … it was a bomb of some kind, yes." pic.twitter.com/2MjVRqAoKE
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 4, 2020
I don’t know.
Who knows.
Original article follows.
We will have to keep our eyes on these explosions.
I tend to think this is JEWS.
At least 73 people were killed and thousands were injured on Tuesday when a massive explosion ripped through the port area of Beirut.
Windows shattered throughout the Lebanese capital and balconies were blown off apartment buildings as a giant plume of smoke soared into the air in nightmare scenes that witnesses said reminded of them of a nuclear bomb blast.
#WATCH: Footage of huge explosion in #Beirut – two blasts rock #Lebanon's capital, officials report "very high number of injuries"https://t.co/JOMOI4AVaW pic.twitter.com/k6hzg6lMDB
— Arab News (@arabnews) August 4, 2020
“What happened is like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions. Nothing remains,” Beirut governor Marwan Abboud said after inspecting the the scene of the explosion.
The city’s hospitals were overwhelmed with injured victims, and the death toll was expected to rise overnight as the full scale of the disaster became apparent.
It began at about 6 p.m. with a fire at a warehouse in the port, a few small explosions as if from firecrackers, and then one giant blast that sent shockwaves throughout the city and was heard as far away as Cyprus in the Mediterranean.
#WATCH: Videos circulating on social media show fire sending smoke billowing into the air before massive #Beirut explosion #Lebanonhttps://t.co/JOMOI4AVaW pic.twitter.com/9H9ciEH8jm
— Arab News (@arabnews) August 4, 2020
A plume of white smoke turned pink, and then red, and fires burned for hours.
Among the worst-hit buildings was the HQ of the state power company, EDL, immediately opposite the port. Dozens of staff were injured, including the company’s general manager Kamal Hayek.
The blast happened during a meeting of the Lebanese Phalange Party in Al-Qusifi, near the port, and Kataeb Party secretary general Nizar Najarian was killed.
Shocked residents poured into the streets from their homes, with many hurt by flying glass and broken doors and furniture. Some walked to the nearest pharmacy, while the more seriously injured were ferried to hospital by car and motorcycle.
Soldiers tried to clear the streets of dazed civilians, some of them drenched from head to toe in their own blood. Volunteers led survivors away to seek medical help, using their shirts as bandages.
Makrouhie Yerganian, a retired teacher who has lived near the port for decades, said it was “like an atomic bomb.”
“I’ve experienced everything, but nothing like this before,” even during the 1975-1990 civil war, she said. “All the buildings around here have collapsed. I’m walking through glass and debris everywhere, in the dark.”General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim said. “It appears that there is a warehouse containing material that was confiscated years ago, and it appears that it was highly explosive.” Experts said the plume of red smoke suggested the material was probably ammonium nitrate, a common agricultural fertiliser.
The Jews have been blowing things up across Iran for several weeks now.
Of course, the other thing is: stuff in Arab countries doesn’t really work very well, and sometimes stuff just blows up randomly for whichever reason or no reason.
I can believe ammonium nitrate fertilizer, on a random day. It’s just weird timing.