In all but the blink of an eye, an Associated Press photographer’s camera captured the moments that a battleship-gray Israeli bomb plummeted toward a Beirut building before detonating to bring the tower down.

A photo taken by an Associated Press photographer shows an apparent Israeli smart bomb dropped in a Beirut suburb.

AP photos captured the moment a missile launched from an Israeli jet hits a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Ghobeiry on Tuesday, as bystanders then watched the building fall to the ground. The strike came 40 minutes after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a warning in Arabic on social media,