Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror proxy, is hiding $500 million in gold and money in a secret bunker previously run by the group’s deceased chief beneath a hospital in Beruit, Israeli army officers stated Monday.Â
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israel Protection Forces spokesperson, stated the Israeli Air Drive was monitoring the vault “intentionally” situated beneath the al-Sahel hospital, however there have been no plans to focus on the construction.Â
Israel has focused the fear group in latest weeks after a yr of Hezbollah strikes launched towards Israel’s north, forcing many within the space to flee.
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The Israeli army stated Hezbollah has a bunker hidden beneath the al Sahel hospital in Beirut crammed with greater than $500 million in money and gold. (Israel Protection Forces)
“The bunker was intentionally positioned beneath a hospital, and it holds greater than half a billion {dollars} in money and gold,” Hagari stated. “That cash may have been used to rehabilitate Lebanon, but it surely went to rehabilitate Hezbollah.”
The bunker is linked to the hospital and is crammed with beds and rooms used for lengthy stays and house for guiding operations, the IDF stated. The IDF additionally stated the positioning belonged to Hassan Nasrallah, the fear group’s slain chief who was killed throughout an Israeli airstrike in September.
Hagari appealed to Lebanese officers to rein in Hezbollah and examine the positioning.
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A 3-D presentation launched by the IDF reveals the place tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} belonging to Hezbollah are being saved in an underground bunker. (Israel Protection Forces)
“I’m calling on the Lebanese authorities, Lebanese authorities and the worldwide organizations: Don’t enable Hezbollah to make use of the cash for terror and to assault Israel,” he stated.
Fadi Alameh, the director of the hospital, reportedly stated the ability was being evacuated.Â
“You might be situated close to services and pursuits belonging to Hezbollah, which the Israeli military will goal within the close to future,” he reportedly wrote on X.Â
The IDF has accused Hezbollah, in addition to Hamas, of hiding weapons and housing its terrorist fighters in hospitals, faculties and different delicate places.Â
Hagari additionally detailed how Iran transfers cash to Hezbollah and different methods the fear group funds its operations. Hezbollah’s monetary arm, Al-Qard Al-Hasan, offers monetary companies to Lebanese civilians and pays the salaries of Hezbollah’s operatives, he stated.
A rendering of al Sahel hospital in Beirut and the underground bunker Israel claims is hiding money and gold for Hezbollah. (Israel Protection Forces)
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Iran’s Quds Drive transfers cash to Hezbollah from Iranian oil offered in Syria, and the Islamic Republic additionally sends suitcases of money and gold by aircraft to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which distributes it on to Hezbollah, the IDF stated.
