Lebanese media reported this Sunday more than a dozen attacks against the financial headquarters of Al Qard Al Hassan, an entity belonging to the Shiite militia Hezbollah, south of Beirut, with the aim of weakening its system economic, as Israel had previously announced. .
According to the Lebanese newspaper L’Oriente Le Jour, the Israeli army managed to hit “the target of the Al Qard Al Hassan agency, located on the first floor of a building in Ali el-Nahri, in Becca.” Similarly, at least 11 attacks on a bank headquarters in al-Barakat, near Beirut International Airport (AIB), in the Lebanese capital, are reported; in the Nabatiyeh district, in southern Lebanon, and in the regions of “Nabatiyé and Aaqibiyé, between Saida and Tyre,” among other areas, according to Lebanese media.
Israel: “We will attack the economic power of Hezbollah”
“Residents of Lebanon, our troops will soon attack the infrastructure belonging to Al Qard Al Hassan, move away immediately,” wrote the Arab spokesperson for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, in a message on his account .
These evacuation alerts affect residents of the Lebanese capital and other regions of the country where there are “sites that Hezbollah uses to finance its terrorist activities,” warned Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari. , during a press conference.
“We are going to attack Hezbollah’s economic power,” Hagari said, adding that “the goal is to damage agents’ confidence in the organization.”
“Hezbollah has different sources of financing, but the most important are through the companies it has created, such as Al Qard al Hassan. We know that with this type of bank, disconnected from the international SWIFT system, it pays salaries within its organization and is used by many Lebanese civilians,” explained a senior Israeli intelligence official.
This same senior Israeli intelligence official assured that every month Iran transfers money to the Lebanese group and that they also have evidence that diplomats linked to the militia enter the country with money in their suitcases .
During a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, more than 2,400 people have been killed on Lebanese territory alone – most in the past month – and more than 1.2 million have been forced from their homes. home to escape the violence. caused a humanitarian crisis in this Mediterranean country.
