Accurate Missile Attack

An Israeli missile hits a building in Ghobeiry, Beirut. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]

Al Jazeera has the story and several more pictures of the missile on it's way to the target. You might think the missile is going to hit the roof, but it actually impacts the building a few stories above ground level.

I like this excerpt. Al Jazeera is usually all Israel-bad all the time.

The strike on Tuesday came roughly 40 minutes after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a warning in Arabic on social media, notifying people in and around a pair of buildings in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital that they should evacuate the area.

He did not explain why the buildings were being targeted, other than to say they were near “interests and facilities” associated with the Hezbollah group.

The warning prompted many people to flee the busy, densely populated neighbourhood, even as others, including a few journalists, kept watch. By the time of the attack, the building had been evacuated and there were no reports of casualties.

Minutes before the missile brought down the building, two smaller projectiles were fired at the roof in what Israel’s military often refers to as warning strikes, according to the AP journalists at the scene. It is a practice Israel has followed in strikes in the Gaza Strip.