Another picture from the area by: @AwdehRaghid https://t.co/7rnh8c9h0E

Huge sonic boom in the south

Huge explosion in Beirut.

There was a huge shake wave in South Lebanon. Like huge the house just shook.

The explosion was heard in all of Lebanon.

From south to east to west to north. The shock wave reached everywhere. https://t.co/gYWixoJYut

I'll post the photos and videos later

- No IDF AF jets or statements, that's fake news.

- It was two warehouses, the fire from the fire works spread to a depo with nitrate and chemicals and thus the explosion (red color is nitrate)

- Sound was heard all the way to Cyprus

- Injures in the thousands

- No certain number of deaths yet

- hundreds are still stuck in collapsed buildings and in the ships in the port

- tens of thousand of building in Beirut and Dahyeh damaged from destroyed walls to destroyed glass.

- Hospitals are full and no more ambulances are available, people are walking to the hospitals.

- The Lebanese army and intellegence got deployed there in huge numbers.

- Gas containers are near an ongoing fire now.

- OTV allegedly says they contacted Hezbullah and Hezbullah said they have nothing there at all.

- IDF radio just said Israel has nothing to do with what happened in Lebanon

- Fire is still ongoing.

- All hospitals in Beirut and Dahyeh are full now.

- Most of the mobile network is down, internet isn't working (barley 140 b/s)

- Lebanon's Electricity offices are fully destroyed.

- Duty free area is fully destroyed

- Grain storage just collapsed.

Note: The damage is solely from the shock wave.

- All doctors in Lebanon and nurses, even the retired are asked to go directly to any hospital.

- CENTCOM just announced they acknowledge what happened and are looking into the matter.

- Head of Lebanon's intellegence and General Security Ibrahim said: "All talks of fireworks is funny, there is unknown explosives and I don't know what before the end of the investigations".

- Ibrahim is saying there might have been in the second warehouse confiscated explosives from a couple of years ago.

- Kataeb's Secretary-General Nazar Najarian is in critical condition and he is in a coma.

- Al Roum hospital is damaged and need people to help evacuate it.

- Head of customs claim there is nitrate in the second depo. First was fireworks.

- Grain silos are burning.

- Al Manar is claiming that the initial fire started by an "electric short circuit"

- According to security sources: the confiscated nitrate was confiscated from a ship few months ago and placed there temporary.

- The nitrate should have been dealt with weeks ago but it wasn't, according to officials.

- Red smoke from the nitrate cloud reached Damascus.

- Presidential palace Windows were destroyed, along with every window in a radius up to 20-25 km

- Cyprus offered Lebanon help

- US state department and WH said they are monitoring the situation.

- High council of defense will meet tonight.

- All ambulances from Lebanon are heading towards Beirut.

- There is more than 5,000 people injuried. Death numbers are unknown.

- Firefighters haven't reached the initial explosion area, people are still under the rubble there.