Israel announced on Monday that it had removed proof that claimed the location of a Hezbollah finance base underneath a Beirut hospital. It has been declared that this Hezbollah bunker at the hospital was storing over $500 million in gold and cash. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a press release that Hassan Nasrallah’s bunker had hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold, which was used to fund the Islamic terror outfit’s activities.
IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, ‘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’. However, the IDF spokesperson, said that the site has not yet been struck, in spite of the presence of huge amounts of gold and cash.
‘The bunker was deliberately placed under a hospital. According to estimates, there is half a billion dollars in dollar bills and gold stored in this bunker. That money could have been used to rehabilitate Lebanon, but it went to rehabilitate Hezbollah. This money could and still can be used to rebuild the state of Lebanon. The Israeli Air Force aircraft are watching the site and will continue to track it’, said Hagari.
He further added that the money that should have been used to revive the economy of Lebanon, was instead being used to fund Hezbollah. Hagari added that Hezbollah operated factories and other resources in Syria too, so as to generate money for their terrorist activities, including the suitcases full of gold and cash it kept receiving from the government of Iran.
On Monday, Israeli forces struck branches of Hezbollah-linked financial group Al-Qard Al-Hassan in the southern neighbourhoods of Beirut, across southern Lebanon and in the eastern Bekaa Valley, the Hezbollah stronghold. The strikes caused no casualties as civilians were warned before to move away. IDF’s Arabic language spokesperson said that the Israeli strikes targeted many locations including those linked to Al Qard Al Hassan, which was used to purchase arms and pay money to Hezbollah terrorists.
The IDF spokesperson added that Hezbollah maintains hundreds of millions of cash in the 30 branches and the strikes were intended to prevent the terrorist organisation from rearming.
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