STORY: Eyewitness video captured the moment an Israeli airstrike hit a building in central Beirut on Wednesday (March 18), causing it to collapse.

A large ball of grey smoke rose into the air after the building crumpled to the ground in the Bachoura neighbourhood, an area close to downtown Beirut that was also targeted by Israel last week.

Reuters confirmed the location from buildings, utility poles and road layout which matched file and satellite imagery of the area. Coordinates of the collapsed building: 33.88930347025724, 35.50588486001858. Exact time when the video was filmed could not be verified but no older version of the video was found posted online before March 18.

An Israeli airstrike hit Beirut's Bachoura neighborhood in the centre of the city on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said. Israeli military issued a statement urging the evacuation of a building in the central Beirut neighbourhood ahead of the attack on March 18.

Israeli air strikes also pounded the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut, where Reuters footage showed explosions lighting up the night sky.

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VIDEO SHOWS: MOMENT BUILDING IS HIT IN STRIKE AND COLLAPSES

VERIFICATION:

- Buildings, utility poles and road layout matched file and satellite imagery

- Coordinates of the collapsed building: 33.88930347025724, 35.50588486001858

- Exact time not verified but no older version of the video was found posted online before March 18

- An Israeli airstrike hit Beirut's Bachoura neighborhood in the center of the city on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said

- Israeli military issued a statement urging the evacuation of a building in the central Beirut neighbourhood ahead of the attack on March 18

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1. VARIOUS OF BUILDING BEING STRUCK AND COLLAPSING, LARGE PLUME OF GREY SMOKE RISING INTO THE AIR