▲ Aspect of the building that the Israeli army destroyed last Friday to assassinate Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, top leader of the Shiite organization Hezbollah, in a suburb of Beirut.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, September 30, 2024, p. 29
Washington. The US president, Joe Biden, yesterday defended the need to avoid an open war in the Middle East, at a time when it emerged that Israel used probably American-made weapons to eliminate Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, according to newspaper reports Washington Post and Guardian.
Biden said he intends to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yes. I’m going to talk to himhe told the press during the trip between Dover Air Force Base and the White House.
We really have to avoid an open war. We have already taken precautions in our embassies and for our staff who want to leave, but we are working like hell with the French and many othershe stated, according to CNN.
He Post pointed out that the fighters who bombed the compound in the suburbs of Beirut where Nasrallah was killed last Friday carried 907 kilogram bombs, some of which were BLU-109 with guide kits JDAM (joint direct attack munitions), both of American manufacture.
According to analysts who reviewed a video of the attack shared by the Israeli army, the fighters equipped with at least three to six BLU-109 each. A former US Army explosive ordnance disposal technician assured the post that the weapons are designed to penetrate up to two meters of reinforced concrete.
Mark Kelly, chairman of the US Senate Armed Forces Air Services subcommittee, told NBC that Israel used a bomb Mark 84 of 900 kilos, reported Guardian. “We see greater use of guided munitions JDAMand we continue to provide those weapons,” said Kelly, quoted by the British newspaper.
“That 2,000-pound bomb that was used is from the series Mark 84to eliminate Nasrallah,” Kelly detailed.
The Israeli army has not commented on the weapons used in the attack that leveled at least six residential buildings, leaving people dead and wounded, he stressed. Guardian.
For now, two senior Israeli defense officials revealed to the New York Times who dropped more than 80 bombs in a matter of minutes on the southern neighborhood of Beirut on Friday to eliminate Nasrallah.
John Kirby, spokesman for US Homeland Security, told CNN that while no one is mourning the death of Nasrallah, we certainly mourn any loss of civilian lifeand stressed that an all-out war is no way to achieve the return of the population of northern Israel.
In this context, Moscow condemned firmly the assassination of the Hezbollah leader and estimated that Israel will have the full responsibility of its consequences dramatic in the region; at the same time, he asked urging Israel to immediately cease its military actionsthe Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Michel Barnier, Prime Minister of France, estimated that the situation in Lebanon It is extremely serious and expressed concern about the security of citizens of their country in the area.
The French Foreign Ministry asked the immediate cessation of Israeli bombings in Lebanon.
China rejected the violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty and security and condemned any action against innocent civilians and urged interested parties, especially Israel, to take immediate measures to reduce tension and prevent the conflict from expanding or even spiraling out of controlnoted the foreign ministry.
On a flight back to Rome from Belgium, Pope Francis condemned the attacks that are beyond morality and sued Israel an immediate ceasefireby emphasizing that Even in war there is a morality to safeguard. War is immoral, but the rules give it a certain morality.
In Italy there were protests yesterday in Rome, Milan and other cities in repudiation of the bombings in Lebanon and Gaza.
