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"><p>The first Israeli Prime Minister has ordered the destruction of a Hizbollah weapons warehouse in Beirut with a new weapon. The weapon, which is not well known, caused considerable damage in the city, killing more than 100 people, injuring 5,000 and destroying many buildings. This time it will be difficult for Benjamin Netanyahu to deny it.</p></div>
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| Damascus (Syria)
| 7 August 2020
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<dt class='crayon document-titre-181303 spip_doc_titre' style='width:350px;'><strong>On September 27, 2018, Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out to the United Nations General Assembly forum the warehouse that will explode on 4 August 2020 as a Hezbollah arms depot.</strong></dt>
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<p>The first Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, authorized a strike against a Hezbollah arms depot using a new weapon that has been tested for seven months in Syria. It is not known whether the second Prime Minister, Benny Gantz, gave his consent.</p>
<p>The strike was carried out on August 4, 2020, at the exact location designated by Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech to the United Nations on September 27, 2018 [<a href='#nb1' class='spip_note' rel='footnote' title='“Remarks by Benjamin Netanyahu to the 73rd Session of the United Nations (...)' id='nh1'>1</a>].</p>
<p>It is not known what weapon was used. However, it has already been tested in Syria since January 2020. It is a missile with a tactical nuclear component in its warhead that causes a smoke mushroom characteristic of nuclear weapons. It is obviously not an atomic bomb in the strategic sense.</p>
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<p>The weapon was tested in Syria on a plain in the countryside and then in the Persian Gulf on the water against Iranian military vessels. This is the first time it has been used in an urban environment, in a particular environment that made the air blast and vibrations reflect off the water and the mountains. Far from destroying only the port of Beirut, it killed about a hundred people, injured at least 5,000 others, and largely destroyed the eastern part of the city (the western part was largely protected by the grain silo).</p>
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<p>Israel immediately activated its networks in the international media to cover up its crime and lend credence to the idea of the accidental explosion of a fertilizer stockpile. As is often the case, false culprits are named, and the international media machine repeats this lie over and over again in the absence of any investigation. Yet there was indeed a smokestack incompatible with the thesis of a fertilizer explosion.</p>
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<p>Just as neither Syria nor Iran had communicated about this weapon when they were hit, the Lebanese political parties immediately reached an agreement not to say anything in order not to demoralize their population. An investigation was opened, not into the cause of the explosion, but into the responsibility of the port’s personnel for the storage of the fertilizer allegedly responsible for the explosion. However, this lie soon turned against the political parties that had imagined it.</p>
<p>The United Nations Tribunal for Lebanon, which was due to make public its verdict in the case of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, decided to postpone it for a few days. Identically in that case, the explosion of a pickup truck masked the firing of a missile with a new weapon, just as this time the explosion of nitrate masked the firing of a missile with another new weapon.</p>
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<p>Five years later, five years too late, I revealed in a Russian magazine the manner in which Rafik Hariri had been killed [<a href='#nb2' class='spip_note' rel='footnote' title='“Revelations on Rafik Hariri’s assassination”, by Thierry Meyssan, Оdnako (...)' id='nh2'>2</a>], while Hezbollah published a video attesting to Israel’s involvement.</p>
<p>It is important to note that the 2005 assassination targeted a former Sunni Prime Minister and that the 2020 attack targeted not Shiite Hezbollah, but the Lebanese Resistance as a whole.</p>
<p>This time, several embassies carried out surveys, including taking grain samples and air filters from ambulances that immediately went to the scene. They are already being examined in their respective countries.</p>
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<p>[<a href='#nh1' id='nb1' class='spip_note' title='Footnotes 1' rev='footnote'>1</a>] “<a href="article203166.html">Remarks by Benjamin Netanyahu to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly</a>”, by Benjamin Netanyahu, <i>Voltaire Network</i>, 27 September 2018.</p>
<p>[<a href='#nh2' id='nb2' class='spip_note' title='Footnotes 2' rev='footnote'>2</a>] “<a href="article167553.html">Revelations on Rafik Hariri’s assassination</a>”, by Thierry Meyssan, <i>Оdnako</i> (Russia) , <i>Voltaire Network</i>, 29 November 2010.</p>
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