“Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Analysts Claim Israel Utilized American Weapon to Assassinate Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah” – One America News Network
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
1:54 PM – Monday, September 30, 2024
Days after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was taken out by Israeli airstrikes, newly alleged evidence has surfaced to reconstruct the reported events that led up to it.
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The area of Dahiyeh saw several high-rise apartment buildings destroyed by the explosions. Additionally, a handful of other structures could also be seen submerged beneath a sea of twisted metal and pancaked concrete that covered an area bigger than a soccer field, according to recorded footage that was posted to social media platforms.
Meanwhile, Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a U.S. senator who chairs a defense committee, suggested that an American-made 2,000-pound (900-kg) bomb was used in the strikes; however, the Pentagon has not confirmed this. The Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee leader, Kelly, reiterated over the weekend that Israel had murdered Nasrallah with strikes using the Mark 84 series bomb.
“We see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs, and we continue to provide those weapons,” Kelly told NBC News. “That 2,000-pound bomb that was used—that’s a Mark 84 series bomb—to take out Nasrallah.”
Furthermore, political analysts believe that the largest attack to strike Beirut since the commencement of the current Middle East conflict, nearly a year ago, was most likely carried out by U.S. “bunker busters.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they carried out the airstrike to take advantage of a small window of opportunity, and that they were aware of and tracking Nasrallah’s movements for months.
The 64-year-old commander of the Islamist militant group supported by Iran was killed by more than 80 bombs dropped over the course of several minutes, according to two IDF sources who spoke with the New York Times.
Residents in southern areas of Beirut were warned and ordered to leave late on Friday by the Israeli military.
The IDF conducted a “precise strike” against Hezbollah’s headquarters that night, which they described as being “embedded under residential buildings in the heart of the Dahiyeh in Beirut.”
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, at least six individuals were killed. The anti-Israel and anti-America officials, Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front, and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Lebanon, were among those slain.
Additionally, on Monday, September 30th, surfacing reports stated that the Lebanese Army has now been seen withdrawing from several positions on the southern border with Israel.
After the previous attacks, Israel published images and videos that depicted the jets that were involved in the attack.
Post translation: “New order… We will reach everyone and everywhere”: Air Force planes in the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah and the Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon,” the Israeli Air Force announced on X.
An ABC News affiliate outlet based in Australia also similarly reported that “Analysts who examined the footage for The Washington Post said it appeared the fighter jets were carrying multiple 2,000-pound-class bombs, some of which were US-made BLU-109s.”
They also added that they were outfitted with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kits, which transform “dumb bombs” into directed weapons capable of striking any designated target.
Michael Shoebridge, the director and founder of “Strategic Analysis Australia,” highlighted the analysis as being factual.
“The pictures released by the IDF show F-15s equipped with those heavy bombs,” he told reporters. “And you can see the strike is consistent with those aircraft having used those weapons.”
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