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Injured. 3,500+ [7] Perpetrator. Israel [b][9] On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in two separate events across Lebanon and Syria in an Israeli attack. [8] The attack killed at least 42 people, including at least 12 civilians, and wounded ...
Displaced. ~300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
Safieddine was targeted during another Israeli airstrike in Beirut on 3 October, [100] [101] [102] with Hezbollah confirming Safieddine's death on 23 October after his body was found. [103] Qassem was then elected secretary-general of Hezbollah on 29 October 2024, following the Israeli assassinations of Nasrallah and his successor. [104]
After 9/11, Clear Channel Communications (an owner of over 1,000 radio stations in the U.S.) released a list of songs deemed "inappropriate". The songs were not banned outright, but stations were advised not to play them. [39] The New York-based band Dream Theater released a live album titled Live Scenes from New York on September 11, 2001.
10 buildings sustained major damage or partially collapsed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, and 10 others were destroyed, 2 of which were demolished due to heavy damage. [1] Several other buildings sustained varying levels of damage, including every building in the World Financial Center and most of the buildings on Vesey Street.
NBC News and a San Diego area publication reported the existence of the video soon after the 9/11 attacks. The video was one of the items investigators found in Al-Bayoumi’s apartment in the ...
Planning of the September 11 attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, intentionally crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport (BIA). On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs were detonated at buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The ...