A voice recording from Dr. Joseph Haddad of St. George Hospital was shared with other doctors across Lebanon, who forwarded it to The New York Times. Public Health Minister Hamad Hassan announced that his ministry would cover the costs of treating the wounded at hospitals, the National News Agency reported. Israeli military officials said there was an exchange of gunfire, which Hezbollah denied. The 60-bed Bikhazi Medical Group hospital treated 500 patients in the hours after the blast, despite extensive damage, said Rima Azar, the hospital director and co-owner. SEOUL, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in spoke publicly for the first time Monday about the killing last week of a fisheries official by North Korean troops, expressing regret and seeking cooperation with Pyongyang. Lebanon was hit by yet another explosion today as a column of smoke erupted over a suspected Hezbollah arms depot with several people feared injured. Right Said Fred are hit by backlash for joining anti-lockdown march in London. “I didn’t see this even during the war. Specifically what caused the blast is under investigation. Moment bride who suffers daily seizures collapses in her husband's arms after walking down the aisle, You're never too old for fun! This is a national commitment.”. Beirut strangers treated me like a friend. Pompeo visits Greece on diplomatic trip to Mediterranean. Scientists 'amazed' after trial of artificial solution stopped virus replicating in 96% of infected ferrets. Study claims disease depletes testosterone and weakens... COVID-19 patients are now three times LESS likely to have highly infectious levels of the virus compared to... Is your local Pizza Hut set to close? The Lebanese Red Cross said that every available ambulance from North Lebanon, Bekaa and South Lebanon was being dispatched to Beirut to help patients. In a follow-up phone call Dr. Haddad, director of intensive care at the hospital, confirmed the recording’s authenticity. At least 137 people were killed and 5,000 wounded in a massive explosion that shook Beirut on Tuesday, according to Lebanon's health minister. Sept. 22 (UPI) -- A major explosion at a Hezbollah arms depot in Lebanon Tuesday injured several people, officials said. Patients were transported to hospitals outside Beirut because those in the city were at capacity. A United Nations-backed tribunal at The Hague has been trying four operatives of Hezbollah, which is now part of Lebanon’s government, in absentia for the Hariri assassination and is due to render a verdict this Friday. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. “He had been through explosions, assassination attempts, wars with the Palestinians and Syrians, Nazo saw it all,” said Elias Hankach, a Kataeb parliamentarian. The blast stirred memories of war in a city that had been relatively calm in recent years. Updated 1:43 AM ET, Sat August 8, 2020 (CNN) Doctored videos of Tuesday's devastating explosion in Beirut are already circulating on every major social media platform. But if the explosions on Tuesday were intentional, they would shatter a prolonged stretch of relative calm in the Lebanese capital. The Israeli military declined to comment on today's blast. Democrats call for release of Trump's tax records after 'blockbuster' report, Experts warn of 'huge surge' in COVID-19 cases in fall, winter, Ex-Trump campaign manager Parscale detained, hospitalized in Florida, Judge bars USPS from implementing service cuts, Scenes from California's record-breaking wildfire season. Moon hopes official's killing opens 'waterway' to unity with North Korea. Lebanese authorities have rejected calls for a foreign probe into the blast, favouring a local investigation that has so far led to the arrest of 25 people. The cause is unclear but the government said “highly explosive materials” had been stored at the blast scene in the Lebanese capital. The attack on the Marines, the worst loss for them since the invasion of Iwo Jima in World War II, was blamed by American officials on Hezbollah, which the United States, Israel and a number of other countries consider a terrorist organization. The devastation near the port in Beirut on Tuesday. Nearly all were strangers, yet they treated me like a friend. Armenia, Azerbaijan renew clashes over contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. A witness near the village today said they felt the ground shake, while footage on Lebanese TV showed men walking over scorched ground littered with debris. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. A smaller explosion was followed by a much larger one. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Nada Rashwan contributed reporting from Cairo, Alan Yuhas from Philadelphia, Adam Rasgon and Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv, Rick Gladstone from Eastham, Mass., and Richard Pérez-Peña from New York. Many landmarks, including hospitals, mosques, churches and universities are nearby. This is her first-person account of what happened. Mr. Najarian, known by the nickname Nazo, died of his injuries. The pressure was horrific. Copyright © 2020 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. When I got downstairs, someone passing on a motorbike saw my bloody face and told me to hop on. France is urging reform after a blast which was widely blamed on corruption and incompetence among Lebanon's ruling class. If it turned out to be accidental, he said, then the disaster is not particularly surprising, the product of “cumulative nonchalance at all levels.”, “Whether you talk about the economy, safety standards, the port, the corruption — none of the country’s issues have had a serious attempt at resolution,” Mr. Hankach said. Judge rules Uber 'fit and proper' to operate in London. When the explosion struck, meetings were in full swing less than a mile away, at the hillside headquarters of the Kataeb Party, a Christian political group that was once one of Lebanon’s most powerful. A quarter of middle-aged women say sex is still 'highly important' to them. BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Lebanon, stuck in an uphill struggle between the United States and Iran, will have to wait for a settlement in the region to regain some political and economic stability and deal with the growing influence of Hezbollah. Dozens of patients and visitors were wounded by falling debris and flying glass. The larger explosion, at 6:08 p.m., blew out the glass from balconies and windows of buildings several miles away from the port and at least one building collapsed from the force of the blast. Lebanon was hit by yet another explosion today as a column of smoke erupted over a suspected Hezbollah arms depot with several people feared injured. Shards of glass from a shattered window ripped into the face and body of one of them, a father who was visiting his child. Videos posted online showed a shock wave erupting from the second explosion, knocking people down and enveloping much of the center city in a cloud of dust and smoke. This is Joseph Haddad calling you from St. George Hospital. Smoke rising from the scene of an explosion in Beirut on Tuesday. The head of state criticised Hezbollah and its fellow Shi'ite movement Amal for insisting they should hold on to the finance ministry in any new government. 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It said the decision covered both hospitals that have contracts with the ministry as well as those that don’t. The inside is a mess, it’s madness.”, He said the party was waiting for clarity on whether the blast was an attack, the kind of crude tool used for decades to shape Lebanon’s political landscape, or just an accident resulting from mismanagement. The US rejects this distinction, warning that weapons bought by Iran from China and Russia could scupper Macron's efforts at reform in Lebanon. Shiite fears, demands jeopardize French initiative to save Lebanon, U.S. blacklists ex-Lebanese ministers for supporting Hezbollah. Several of his patients — children with cancer — and their family members were among the injured. Hospitals were so overwhelmed that they were turning wounded people away, including the American University Hospital. Not thinking but moving, I ducked under my desk. Nearly 200 people were killed. Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The upcoming G20 Leaders' Summit in November, originally planned for Saudi Arabia, will instead be held entirely remotely, officials said. The severity of the explosions recalled the days when bombings and mayhem were a regular fact of life in Beirut, both during its 1975-1990 civil war and its aftermath, including sporadic conflicts between Israel and Hezbollah. Coronavirus global death toll passes 1 million. Anwar Amro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. “Our headquarters looks like a bomb went off inside. The larger explosion, at 6:08 p.m., blew out the glass from balconies and windows of buildings several miles away from the port and at least one building collapsed from the … Videos of the aftermath posted online showed wounded people bleeding amid the dust and rubble, and damage where flying debris had punched holes in walls and furniture. “Every floor of the hospital is damaged,” said Dr. Peter Noun, the chief of pediatric hematology and oncology. NNA said the explosion coincided with intense Israeli overflights 'that did not leave the skies' over the area since Tuesday morning. Damage was seen at least two miles from the explosion, encompassing an area with more than 750,000 residents. Vivian Yee, a correspondent for The New York Times, was at home in Beirut when two explosions convulsed the city. He said the parents of four children being treated for cancer were so panicked they grabbed their children, pulled out their intravenous needles and bundled them into their cars, headed to other hospitals or even went home. Health-care workers moving an injured man from one hospital to another in Beirut on Tuesday night. Efforts to form a new government have proved fruitless so far - with president Michel Aoun warning the country could be going to 'hell' if no new ministry takes shape. according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, registered on seismographs at magnitude 3.3, suicide attack on the United States Embassy. Dozens are dead and thousands hurt. An Israeli intelligence official denied any Israeli involvement in the incident. My yellow front door had been hurled on top of my dining table. Videos showed only twisted metal and chunks of concrete where that warehouse had been, some of it identifiable as the remains of trucks and shipping containers. More than 70 are dead, the health ministry said. Lebanon was hit by yet another explosion today as a cloud of smoke erupted over a suspected Hezbollah arms depot, Hezbollah operatives surrounded the blast site after a fire broke out in the village of Ain Qana, 30 miles south of Beirut which was devastated by last month's port explosion. But France, the former colonial power in Lebanon which is leading reconstruction efforts in the country, said there was 'nothing tangible to confirm such an allegation'. The numbers climbed steadily through the day, and with the wounded still streaming into hospitals and the search for missing people underway, they were likely to go higher still. Then came a much bigger boom, and the sound itself seemed to splinter. “It’s all destroyed. “It was a bomb of some kind.”, Mr. Diab, the prime minister, said in a televised statement, “Facts on this dangerous depot, which has existed since 2014 or the past six years, will be announced.”, “What happened today will not come to pass without accountability,” Mr. Diab said. On social media, people reported damage to homes and cars far from the port. The Lebanese presidency said on Twitter that President Michel Aoun had instructed the military to aid in the response, and called an emergency meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, which declared Beirut a disaster area. They said hundreds of thousands of doses, used to supply health centers across Lebanon, were stored on tall shelves in the warehouse, in an area where other buildings were badly damaged. They erupted next to a tall building called Beirut Port Silos, at or near a structure identified on maps as a warehouse. The explosions on Tuesday were preceded by a fire at a warehouse at Beirut’s port, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Leaders in more than 60 nations pledged Monday to preserve threatened and endangered species by including concerns about climate change and biodiversity in their COVID-19 recovery strategies. Subway workers reveal the WEIRDEST sandwiches they've ever had to make, from a toasted tuna sub with SPLENDA... Now pubs are banned from playing loud music! We heard a boom, then everything was shaking.”. St. George Hospital in central Beirut, one of the city’s biggest, was so severely damaged that it had to shut down and send patients elsewhere. Security sources said today's blast was caused by a 'technical error' and had caused a number of injuries, although Hezbollah officials have not confirmed any casualties. The man was intubated and in critical condition at another hospital, Dr. Noun said. Health facilities were badly damaged at the moment they were most needed. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, New tougher clampdown bans ALL households from mixing in the North East, while Manchester mayor Andy Burnham calls for alcohol sales be outlawed after 9pm to stop post-pub parties, Government sneaks out new covid curbs: Now you can be fined £4,000 for 'recklessly' leaving self-isolation and £1,000 for giving false details for close contacts in rules introduced overnight, Is THIS why men are more badly affected by Covid-19? The blast shook the building so badly that party members thought a bomb had gone off inside. Inside St. George Hospital, about six-tenths of a mile from the explosion, “everything just fell down, the windows destroyed, the ceiling in pieces,” Dr. Noun said. Published: 14:56, 22 September 2020 | Updated: 16:12, 22 September 2020. All of it. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. Flames continued to rise from the rubble well after the explosions, and a cloud of smoke, tinted pink in the sunset, rose thousands of feet into the sky. The comments below have not been moderated. Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. One resident said the streets looked like they were “cobbled in glass.”. The Iran-backed group is heavily armed but its political wing has been a major player in Lebanese governments in recent years, and efforts to recover from the Beirut blast have been hampered by Hezbollah's insistence on holding onto key ministries. Videos captured the toll of the deadly blast in Beirut that killed dozens of people and injured thousands. Pray to God, pray to God.”. Another fire in the same area broke out earlier this month. Ben Hubbard reported from Beirut, and Maria Abi-Habib from Los Angeles. Hezbollah has refrained from killing Israelis while Israel has largely avoided killing Hezbollah fighters in Syria, where they are fighting on the Syrian government’s side. American military leaders “seem to think it was an attack,” President Trump told reporters at the White House, which was at odds with what Lebanese officials said.
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