The moment an airstrike destroyed a high-rise apartment building in Beirut, Lebanon, which Israeli officials said was used by Hezbollah, was captured on video.

Video footage obtained from the New York Post shows a series of buildings surrounded by smoke. A loud explosion is heard as one of the buildings collapses. The streets can be seen in chaos as people react to the strike.

Photos obtained by The Associated Press show the projectile in midair just before it hits the building.

AP photo: An AP photographer captures the bomb that hit a building in his childhood neighborhood. https://t.co/GHhvnP8pKJ

— Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2024

The airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Beirut’s Tayouneh district. According to N.Y.P.

Israeli military officials said the building in question housed a facility run by Hezbollah. According to A.P. The Lebanese Civil Defense Agency said the bombing killed an employee and volunteer of an emergency services agency, NYP reported.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) issued a warning on social media before conducting an airstrike on Beirut. The IDF claimed the attacks targeted facilities associated with the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. (Related: Fact check: Images claim Beirut is burning after Israeli airstrike)

⭕️ The IAF conducted an intelligence-based attack against Hezbollah terrorist targets in Dahieh, a key Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut where terrorist infrastructure is embedded.

Prior to the airstrike, aerial surveillance and numerous advance warnings were issued. pic.twitter.com/QAwuDzvTr3

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 15, 2024

On October 25, the Israel Defense Forces also bombed an operational Iranian nuclear weapons research center, Taleghan 2, in Parchin, current and former U.S. and Israeli officials said. said Axios. A former Israeli official said the airstrike destroyed equipment used to make plastic explosives used to detonate nuclear weapons.

Iran has long denied efforts to build nuclear weapons. The facility was an aspect of Iran’s Amad nuclear weapons program, which the country ostensibly shut down in 2003, the paper said. image obtained by The National Institute for Science and International Security revealed that Tarehan 2 suffered extensive damage.