A government-led investigation is under way in Lebanon to probe the cause of the massive explosion that ripped through the capital, Beirut.
The government announced on Wednesday that those responsible for guarding and storage at Beirut’s port – the epicentre of the blast – would be placed under house arrest “as soon as possible,” after the disaster left at least 137 dead and 5,000 wounded.
Damage from the explosion, which officials have linked to some 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port, may be worth up to $15bn, Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports.
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Nothing will change before they revolt. But they seem too weak to start a revolution. They are all hopes and talk but no action in the end. Exactly how they ended where they are it seems.
Socrates_The_Great A civil war on the brink. That might be a painful solution.
Everyone there needs to deal with thier responsibilities for irresponsible people in control of them , shame on the mess!
Beirut was called the “Paris of the Middle East” in the years after the end of WWII. Unfortunately, the politicians have not allowed that beautiful city to survive. And nowvthis disaster, no doubt a result of the government turning a blind eye to those who would import such a huge quantity of highly explosive “fertiliser”. The people of Beirut know who is to blame…..
No one can fix a problem like Lebanon.
There is no money in Lebanon. It’s all gone.
Just forget about Lebanon.
The Paris of the middle east is actually a very insulting phrase and I never get why they’re so proud of that label.
Why is achievement automatically aligned to Western cities? They are not an automatic standard for beauty or success.
Political leadership at its worst. The people don’t deserve this chaos and pain.
Relax. President Trump is sending military aid to Saudi Arabia. Everyone will be fine.
Is Lebanon still being sanctioned by AMERICA? Give me a thumbs up if you are.
Yeah,its is,thats why our currency keep falling down in comparison to dollar.
1:25 outstanding
Love is the answer. Money is greed. Greed is an illusion.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been notified.
Hezbollah didn’t do well in science classes
charley katz is that the best informations that you could come with,cursing.
Always a pleasure to curse Baba Hasan.
charley katz yeah i know,thanks for supporting and agreeing with my last comment
Arab jarab
charley katz lol youre funny when you show your dumbness.
Meanwhile Iran still pours in $40m p.a. to help silly little men threaten Israel.
No one can fix a problem like Lebanon.
There is no money in Lebanon. It’s all gone.
Just forget about Lebanon.
In lebanon food is not there what the f*** were they doing with ammonium nitrate???
I’m English – The UK government and military need to mobilize to help our innocent friends right now
Development aid to Lebanon should first require the removal of Hezbollah. As long as the government permits a terrorist organization to operate, this government can not be trusted with aid dollars.
Dear God please help and have mercy on these people and their country in Jesus name. Amen💕
So painful to watch all these people in misery.The grandma looked very courageous and all lebanese have that courage.
The economy is shot there ! This is a cover up to funnel money to Lebbonon ! In stead of using emergency money from the EU BANK
Holy heck if that was an intentional bombing ! Not good
Love seeing the people work together right away. Stay strong Lebanon!💪🏾 Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
the Lebanese president must take responsibility for this, he should have known that this would happen
With the power of that explosion they will never find most of those missing people because the force was just too great. Rip to all that lost their lives.
Are you guys know that new deadly virus found in China. It’s name SFTS VIRUS. main thing is that it is more dangerous from coronavirus. China hiding the truth about it. This virus cause is tic external parasites. So be careful.
2020 worst year ever. Hope we can survive ..🙏🙏🙏
After this disaster, there will be another attack from the Coronavirus due to the massive number of people gather to clean the mess. Lebanon is constantly living in sorrows, fears and sufferings. Oh, God…!!!
🐑 “Coronavirus” is a first world problem only media controlled people are fearful about it trust me Lebanon people been fighting and protesting straight through the Corona they don’t give af about that
Raw , mossad , cia , islam enemies surely involve in it 😠😠😠
Whole Europe are happy only Muslim facing these attacks why ?
Cause you suck with hate that’s why
Please don’t bring them to Canada
Smh
Who are u begging for?
Allah angry on Islamic world because of their double face nature that’s why no one Islamic country is in state of peace in this world karma is playing it’s role
Isnt Hezbollah a terrorist organization
Wow! Only in 2020 a mini nuke can be tested and then the authorites blame it on fertilizers and fireworks. Interesting times, I wonder what is around the corner.
World bank should help Labanon right now and every nation who has economic power should help. Thanks.
Md Hossain
Either Lebanese will start a revolution against the government or foreign nations will occupy Lebanon in the guise of “humanitarian aid”.
Ask China to rebuild your country, they’ll do it…for a fee
The Banking Cartel did this because the population woke up and was reveling against their slavery system but of course main stream media owned by the very same cartel would promote is an accident
BBC already started, Russian fault
🤗🤗🤗
YouTube deleted my post praising the attitude of the Lebanese people in the middle of this tragedy and compared it to the mobs in USA complaining and destroying this great country. 😨
Ironically, every town in Lebanon still has a war-house full of bomb materials
Lebanon needs progressive politcal action. The rich political establishment have been spending money like crazy on useless projects at the expense of government services and infrastructure. This is absolutely shameful.
Israil attacked on Lebanon
The govt
Corrupt official are enjoying their life while lebanist are suffering
stay strong and stay safe 🤘
We all know who is trully responsible for this terrorist attack… ISRAEL .. just look at the negatives of the video, shows clearly a projectile come in and on impact cause the huge explosion….
Israel teror mosad teror
Lol
What about all the poormigrant workers who were stuck in Beirut because their passports were STOLEN from them??? What about them???
It is unfortunate that many governments exist not to help their people. Not just Lebanon, but worldwide is this a major problem. Great to see that brotherly and sisterly love are still present in Beirut, locals aiding one another during times of overwhelming devastation and crises. May Beirut’s people rise above all this. May Beirut recover quickly and shine even more beautifully than before. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Come gesas people
This is inside job paid by foreign country.
I think another disaster caused by poor governance.. They were told many times the ship containing potentially explosive fertilizer was lying on the dock..they failed to have it removed..hence the explosion.. Sad day for the Lebanese
Absolutely heartbreaking🥺
Lebanon is ALWAYS in crisis 😷
Curse of GOD.
What is the cause of explosion? Fire crackers made in China?
Next time , Navy shall not capture any bombs, chemical etc
If it passing by sea route, let them pass to other country 😐
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aLLAHsuckhamyadayada says so!!!
Poor incident 😞
This unfortunate blast is a jackpot for the corrupt elites. The money will start pouring in and their secret bank accounts will get fatter . What a shame. They can’t even manage a small country. Now the one on the bottom will be blamed and punished. Who were the ultimate in charge? I feel terrible for Lebanese people. Peace and love from USA 🇺🇸
There is no money in Lebanon, the best thing would be to give the country to someone else as it hasn’t worked so far.
The world is falling apart
So painful to watch =,(
Hab beweis video über Beirut SCHAUT EUCH SOFORT AN bevor es gelöscht wird
Israel we know you guys ?
I like how he said we are working together to find more corpses…not people… corpses what are they not telling us ?
Who puts a nuclear test site in the middle of downtown?
Nicely done merica
Binod
The way that girl talks about her father missing sounds like she talks about her cat missing. Too relaxed reporter like.
So much pain and grief😭😭
The explosion has levelled the society in Beirut which is engulfed in total darkness tonight. Both the rich and poor lack power and must use candles for light.
Political leadership at its worst even in India
Who’s responsible for the terrorism
Honduras🇭🇳…..is responsible for it!!!
Ccp
Not only muslim countries whole world must support lebanon financially. It is enough if the world breaks the war financing against each other
“Possible negligence” !!! Possible !!!
Estate is useless
What is the best most secure way to donate to help?
If this explosion is connected back to Zionism, I think it could be World War 3… President Trump just said that the American people may not see much of him for a while…
The issue is that Israel is so good at Human Intelligence. Almost impossible to keep Hezbollah secrets from them. It has to be incredibly compartmentalised and divided into independent cells.
They look like Jesus May the all go to heaven bless you
ever since hezbolah has established itself in lebanon, it has bcom an enemy of israel. the enemies of israel are cursed
hezbolah is satanic, nasralah is a demon, hiding in nooks and crevices like a cockroach
I hope the investigation will be quick and transparent. But due to corruption it may take 20 yrs and will never be resolved. I personally hate corrupt leaders.
An International body should do the investigation not the local government
God Bless the people of Lebanon, the land of cedar trees will be restored…from Jamaica with love.
look like some of them turned into dust..
Why is it when you see images of human misery, suffering, mismanagement, corruption civil war, ….you can always see a mosque in the background. Interesting.
I never knew these people were so lovely and intelligent guess that’s what happens when we are indoctrinated by leaders who want to convince us otherwise
That stuff may have been confiscated from a ship six years ago, but since then it probably became part of Hezbollah’s weapons/explosives storage and because they control everything, it was never moved, it just became an arms warehouse for an idiotic terrorist group masquerading as a legitimate government.
the world is with you Lebanon in hoping for a positive change.
Why are they keeping great volume of explossives, for what purpose, who own it?
No no it was already in the edge of excavation. This blast just push Lebanon into it.
My Condolence to the Lebanese people.
What happening in Lebanon is very painful. Politicians are treating their Country like dirt. They are behaving very selfish. If you, as politicians behave corruptly, you tend to WEAKEN everyone. People become careless and refuse to actually perform with dedication and commitment.
Best for Arab world to unite and wipe out Isreal. Attacks on Saudi oil and tanks by Isreal. Attack on Aramco by Isreal. Attack on Iran nuclear facilities by occupying Isreal. Nuclear attack on Lebanon by Isreal.
Lebanese govt failed it’s people!
😡😡
What’s going on in middle east there is always conflict, war and corruption?! The people are suffering not the corrupt and greedy politicians. Praying for Lebanon stay strong🙏
Why Libanonese corrupt government is backing radical Hezebollah now face the mess~Fools
Corruption and neglect for years and years people of the high class don’t care for others All over the planet the rich is working together to push down the weak ,here in America police are assaulting the blacks and the poor .your not alone ,
UNTIL HEZZULLA TERROR TEAM AND HER BOSS =IRAN WILL NOT GET LOST FROM LEBANON ??SADLY YOU WE SEE MORE THEN THAT BOOM !!! ITS ALL ABOUT IRAN AND HER ATTACK DOG =HEZZBULLA !!!!
Lebanon Deserve this For Allowing so called Refugees from Palestine
Beirut danced in the street on 9/11…..i love Karma…..suck it Islam…..