(Based on staff articles from the ABC NEWS AUS and The DAILY MAIL UK.)
On October 23, 1983, Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers in a terrorist bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Minutes later, a second suicide bomber killed 58 French paratroopers. Six innocent Lebanese civilians also lost their lives.
The abhorrent and shocking attack on the Beirut
barracks remains to this day the single deadliest day for the U.S. Marine Corps
since the Battle of Iwo Jima. On October-23 last year United States Secretary
of State Antony J. Blinken said in the press statement that “Today, forty years
later, we mourn those service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon
lost in both attacks and we honor their legacy.
We think of their families and friends, who continue to feel the painful
absence of loved ones.”
Almost a year later on 27 September this year, US-Proxy Israel, with the use of more than 80 American-made 2,000-pound bombs widely known as the Bunker-Busters provided free-and-abundant by the US to Israel, blew up (or liquified) a multi-storied apartment building 60 ft above the massive underground bunker being used as the Hezbollah Command-and-Control Centre in the Suburb of Dahiyeh in Beirut the Capital City of Lebanon.