{"id":116966,"date":"2024-10-22T06:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116966"},"modified":"2024-10-22T06:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:31:04","slug":"israel-claims-hezbollah-bunker-under-beirut-hospital-holds-millions-of-dollars-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116966","title":{"rendered":"Israel claims Hezbollah bunker under Beirut hospital holds millions of dollars | Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Israel has accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hezbollah\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Hezbollah<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Israel<\/a> appealed to the Lebanese government to confiscate the money it said the Shia militant organisation had stolen from the Lebanese people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Shortly after, Israel issued a series of warnings to residents of Dahiyeh that it would begin striking buildings in the area and that they should move at least 500 metres away. Those who remained in the area began to flee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lebanon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Lebanon<\/a>. At least four people including a child were killed and 24 injured in the strike, and the hospital suffered \u201cmajor damage\u201d from the blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Despite the strike, the hospital\u2019s activities continued as usual and it was receiving the injured from Monday night\u2019s strikes, according to a source at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Fears had proliferated that hospitals would be struck in the greater Beirut area after the Israeli allegations, which echoed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/17\/idf-evidence-so-far-falls-well-short-of-al-shifa-hospital-being-hamas-hq\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">similar claims in Gaza<\/a>, where the Israel Defense Forces said Hamas ran military operations from medical buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Lebanon\u2019s ministry of health condemned what it said was \u201cattacks on two of Lebanon\u2019s largest hospitals\u201d and part of Israel\u2019s \u201cdaily targeting of the Lebanese health sector\u201d. Israel has killed at least 115 healthcare workers and emergency responders since fighting started between Hezbollah and Israel a year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">It was the second night in a row that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/israeli-airstrikes-on-lebanon-hit-branches-of-hezbollah-linked-bank-al-qard-al-hassan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Beirut was heavily bombed<\/a>, with Israel carrying out more than 15 airstrikes on Hezbollah-linked banking institutions the night before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">On Sunday night, Israel said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/lebanon-beirut-attack-israel-hezbollah-al-qard-al-hassan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">it would begin targeting a Hezbollah-affiliated bank<\/a>, Al-Qard Al-Hassan, which provides interest-free loans and banking services to hundreds of thousands of Lebanese \u2013 primarily Shia Muslims. It accused the bank of helping finance Hezbollah and said that its branches were used to store weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The announcement that Israel would start targeting the bank, a part of Hezbollah\u2019s civilian institutions, signified an expansion of the scope of Israel\u2019s targets from just the group\u2019s military wing. The institution had sanctions placed on it by the US in 2017 during the Trump administration for giving Hezbollah access to the international financial system, according to the US Treasury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Al-Qard Al-Hassan was founded in the early 1980s as a charitable institution, part of Hezbollah\u2019s robust social services network.<\/p>\n<figure data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.NewsletterSignupBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-13\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"newsletter promotion\" class=\"dcr-av5vqf\">\n<div class=\"dcr-10et71f\">\n<p class=\"dcr-rsfwa\">Sign up to <span>Global Dispatch<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Get a different world view with a roundup of the best news, features and pictures, curated by our global development team<\/p>\n<p><gu-island name=\"SecureSignup\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;newsletterId&quot;:&quot;global-dispatch&quot;,&quot;successDescription&quot;:&quot;Get a different world view with a roundup of the best news, features and pictures, curated by our global development team&quot;}\"\/><span class=\"dcr-1eusqlu\"><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/span><\/aside>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-13\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure id=\"c56d5d11-9d91-4d47-80ab-9d0b1bcd3de6\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:14,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon hit branches of Hezbollah-linked bank&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;c56d5d11-9d91-4d47-80ab-9d0b1bcd3de6&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/israeli-airstrikes-on-lebanon-hit-branches-of-hezbollah-linked-bank-al-qard-al-hassan&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The banking institution became more popular after Lebanon\u2019s 2019 financial crisis, when commercial banks froze almost all accounts and almost entirely stopped issuing loans. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese people, primarily Shia Muslims, bank with Al-Qard Al-Hassan, many of them giving the bank familial assets such as gold in exchange for loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Shortly after saying it would begin striking Al-Qard Al-Hassan, Israel began striking buildings belonging to the bank in greater Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">At least 10 airstrikes were carried out in Dahiyeh, causing an entire building to collapse and a jet of fire to stream into the air in the Chiyah neighbourhood. A building close to Lebanon\u2019s only commercial airport was also struck \u2013 video footage showed a smoke plume billowing while a nearby plane sat on the runway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cThey struck empty buildings in residential neighbourhoods, and destroyed those surrounding neighbourhoods. These weren\u2019t military centres or weapons caches,\u201d said Ma\u2019an Khalil, the mayor of Ghobeiry municipality in the southern suburbs of Beirut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Monday morning, where he met Lebanon\u2019s parliamentary speaker, Nabih Berri, and the country\u2019s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, to discuss ways towards a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hochstein said implementation of the UN security council resolution 1701 was the path towards a ceasefire in Lebanon and rejected calls to amend the UN agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Resolution 1701 ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war and has since been the framework that governs security dynamics on the Lebanese-Israeli boundary. Under the terms of the agreement, Hezbollah and other armed militias must not be present past the Litani River, about 18 miles (30km) north of the border. The resolution also dictated that Israeli forces withdraw from Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/21\/israel-claims-hezbollah-bunker-under-beirut-hospital-holds-millions-in-cash\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116966\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}