US-Supplied Munitions Identified in Beirut Strike on Hezbollah Leader

Footage verified by munitions experts shows eight Israeli fighter jets equipped with over a dozen of the heavy bombs during the Friday night assault. According to an unnamed Pentagon official, the sheer concentration of ordnance deployed against the site surpassed anything previously observed in the region. The strikes obliterated at least four residential buildings, each standing seven stories tall, along a single street in the capital.

While the United States has supplied Israel with thousands of these heavy munitions since October 7, the Biden administration had paused shipments in May following concerns over their use in densely populated areas of Gaza. President Joe Biden has not commented on the specific weaponry used in the Beirut operation or the resulting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared the U.S. complicit in the strike, warning of an increasingly volatile regional security environment.

Since mid-September, the escalating conflict has resulted in over 1,000 deaths in Lebanon and displaced roughly 1 million people. The lack of public condemnation from the White House has drawn sharp criticism from political organizers, including Abbas Alawieh of the Uncommitted National Movement, who argued that the administration’s silence is alienating core constituencies in battleground states like Michigan.