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Photos: Israeli Missile Strike in Beirut
(AP) Adam Schreck - An AP photographer captured the moment a missile launched from an Israeli jet hit a building in southern Beirut on Tuesday. The airstrike came 40 minutes after Israel warned people to evacuate two buildings in the area that were near Hizbullah warehouses and assets. Minutes before the strike brought down the building, there were two smaller strikes on it, in what Israel's military often refers to as a "knock on the roof" warning strike, according to AP journalists at the scene. Using a "smart" bomb with an advanced guidance system and a delayed action fuse explains why the destruction was limited almost entirely to the targeted building. People standing a few hundred meters away felt little to nothing from the blast and didn't see much fragmentation.