Israel’s military announced that there’s a Hezbollah bunker packed with “cash and gold” under a hospital in southern Beirut.
According to IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israeli agents have discovered the facility under the Sahel General Hospital in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood, a Hezbollah stronghold. Hagari said in a press conference:
Tonight, I am going to declassify intelligence on a site that we did not strike—where Hezbollah has millions of dollars in gold and cash—in Hassan Nasrallah’s bunker. Where is the bunker located? Directly under Al-Sahel Hospital in the heart of Beirut.
If true, the disclosure points both to the wealth amassed by Hezbollah leaders and to the recurring Islamist tactic of building terror facilities amid and within civilian areas. If this is not embarrassing enough for the near-shattered antisemitic terrorist group, it may find Lebanese civilians making their way to the location to extract some reparations for the years spent living alongside Hezbollah as a ‘state within the state.’
This money could and still can go to rebuilding the state of Lebanon. This money had been intended to go exclusively to arming the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and had no other destination.
This announcement is consistent with Israeli claims to be at war with Hezbollah, part of Iran’s Islamist ‘axis of resistance,’ and not with Lebanon.
Hospital director and local parliamentary representative Fadi Alameh denied there are any tunnels under the hospital. The Lebanese army and world media were invited to confirm this.
On Monday, Israel announced plans to carry out further strikes against financial institutions affiliated with Hezbollah, primarily on its Iran-linked financial services charity, Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association (AQAH).
Despite its recent military setbacks, Hezbollah claimed to have launched rockets at a naval base near Haifa. Five rockets targeting Tel Aviv’s Iron Dome battery were also fired, most of which were successfully intercepted by Israeli missile defences.
