Israel carries out new attacks in Beirut’s southern suburbs
The Israeli army announced late Friday into Saturday that it was attacking what it presented as Hezbollah weapons depots hidden under buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Shortly before, he had called on the population to evacuate.
israeli armed forces “We are currently carrying out targeted attacks against weapons belonging to” to Hezbollah “which were stored under civil buildings in the [zone de la banlieue sud de] Beirut »bastion of this Lebanese Islamist movement, indicates a military press release published shortly before 00:40 local time (23:40 in Paris).
According to a source close to Hezbollah, the attacks targeted the Laylaki neighborhood, which the Israeli army had called to evacuate.
“In the heart of the [banlieue sud de Beyrouth], “Hezbollah built three buildings with underground spaces designed to store strategic weapons, and the buildings above served as shields.”accused Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli army, in a televised speech.
“Hezbollah has stored these strategic weapons under the feet of civilians”he added, stating that “The way the missiles are stored in these buildings allows them to be removed in a matter of minutes to fire them”.
“In the last hour we have contacted the neighbors of these three buildings”who should evacuate “immediately for your own safety”he added.
Before him, Colonel Avichai Adraee, the Israeli army’s spokesman for the Arabic-speaking public, had published X maps on which the three buildings were located and, in a video, asked local residents to evacuate within a radius of 500 meters around these possible targets.
