Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, though it said it would not strike the complex.

The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.

Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital and said it had previously been used to hide the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.

    • @SulaymanF
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      Remember when Israel claimed that there was a multi-story Hamas command center under the Al-Shifa hospital, even sharing an animated rendering of it, and Biden said he believed it “no question in my mind?” The Israelis destroyed the hospital and found nothing but bragged that they found proof in the form of a gun in one of the rooms.

    • @[email protected]
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      Remember how that false narrative was believed by virtually every mainstream liberal and the only countervailing voices were the usual (left / local) sources that continue to be dismissed by mainstream liberals?

  • lnxtx
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    461 month ago

    Another Al Shifa. Magazines next to MRI machine. Terrorists calendar.
    We know all the tricks.

    I’m scary. What will happen after the US elections?
    Full invasion? Next Gaza?

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      There is a word for it when it was deliberate done by someone to instill this… What was it again…

      Oh yeah.

      Terrorism!

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      That’s why they evacuated it, they know Israel would bomb it. They’ve targeted hospitals and abundances in Lebanon before (and Gaza as well, of course).

  • davel [he/him]
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    What a strange thing to announce. Everything Israel says is a lie, but even still, so what if Hezbollah does store it there? I don’t understand why anyone is supposed to care how or where Hezbollah might store cash & gold on their own lands.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      Israelis don’t believe it is their land. That’s the rub

    • @[email protected]
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      The goal is not really to kill civilians or even to harm Hezbollah. The goal is to destroy vital services to further destabilize the country.

  • @[email protected]
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    321 month ago

    I legit had to check whether this was The Onion. This is such an absurd thing to announce it seems like a parody of their actions.

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    Airstrikes began about an hour later, with strong explosions heard across the Beirut area. One of the strikes hit just in front of the entrance of the Rafik Hariri university hospital, the largest public hospital in Lebanon. At least four people including a child were killed and 24 injured in the strike, and the hospital suffered “major damage” from the blast.

    The initial casualty count was expected to rise as first responders continued digging through the rubble for people. A picture of the building struck in front of Rafik Hairi hospital showed a man covered in blood lying lifeless in a bombed-out building.

    Israel won’t stop targeting hospitals

  • @Korkki
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    Wasn’t there that Gazan hospital that they occupied and destroyed and claimed it was legitimate target, because they found box cutters and binoculars? Tools that were totally used by Hamas soldiers hiding under the Hospital…

    • Raymond Shannon
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      You know how the saying goes

      “you run into a jerk, that jerk is likely the jerk. Run into many jerks, and you might just be the jerk”

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes. Except now it is even more incredible since how the FUCK are they getting away with it! Back then fact checking was much harder and it was much easier to bullshit. Now we have access to unprecedented information and fact checkers and still the same old fucktard tactics work.

      There isn’t even a cool off period with this. There was a time not too long ago where they would spout some bullshit that would later turn out to be obvious bullshit… and they would wait several years for people to forget before doing it again. But over here they just turned the entire thing into a ritual where they expect us to fall in line and believe it even they know we know it is shit.

  • NutWrench
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    This is Israel’s setup for bombing a damn hospital. Not that they’ve ever cared about needing an excuse, before.

  • @Bookmeat
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    Who do you think put it there? 🤔