A US senator said that the bombs used by Israel in the airstrike in Beirut that killed top Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were guided weapons developed in the United States.
According to Mark Kelly, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, Hezbollah headquarters was hit by 2,000-lb (900-kg) Mark 84 series bombs, also referred to as bunker-busters.
"We see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs, and we continue to provide those weapons... That 2,000-pound bomb that was used—that's a Mark 84 series bomb—to take out Nasrallah," he said.
With the use of fins and a GPS guidance system, JDAMs may transform an ordinary unguided bomb into a guided weapon.
Israel's largest armament supplier has been the United States, a longstanding ally, particularly since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which resulted from the Palestinian militant group's Oct 7 invasion of Israel, which claimed hundreds of lives.
But the White House claimed that Israel had not informed them about the airstrike that killed Nasrallah in Beirut, and US President Joe Biden was only made aware of it after Israeli planes had taken off.
Earlier, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Sep 28 that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in airstrikes in Beirut. The IDF stated in a post on ‘X’, "Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to instill fear in the world.”
In a week, the IDF killed at least seven Hezbollah commanders by stepping up their strikes on Lebanon.
The Iranian-backed terrorist group also acknowledged the death of Nabil Kaouk, the deputy leader of Hezbollah's Central Council, one day after Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.
They also informed us that another senior commander, Ali Karaki, died in the attack. Mohammad Surour, Ibrahim Kobeissi, Ahmad Wehbe, and Ibrahim Akil were the other Hezbollah commanders who died in the attacks.
Over 100 people were killed in a single day as a result of Israel's ongoing shelling of Hezbollah positions in Lebanon on Sep 29. The attack left over 359 people injured and around 105 people dead, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
