Israel invites the people of Beirut to a treasure hunt
From IDF spokesman Hagari:
Hezbollah’s financial network is based on two main sources of income: money from the Iranian regime and money from the Lebanese people.
Iran’s Quds Forces transfer money to Hezbollah from Iranian oil sold in Syria. Iran also sends suitcases of cash and gold by planes to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, and then directly it goes to Hezbollah. Hezbollah has also built factories in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen, and in Turkey that provide income for its terrorist operations. Hezbollah Unit 4400 manages this financial network. It was run by Jaafar Qasir, also known as Sheikh Sala, until he was eliminated in a precise strike in Beirut at the beginning of October.
Today, in another precise strike in Syria, we have eliminated his successor.
These aren’t long-term positions anymore.
Hagari continues with his lecture on terrorist finance:
… this Iranian money [is] used to kill Israelis, … [and] it devalues the Lebanese pound, making the economy crisis in Lebanon even worse.
… Hezbollah makes money from Lebanese citizens by offering them financial services through the Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association. Last night, we called on Lebanese civilians to move out, move out of harm’s way from Hezbollah’s financial facilities across Lebanon … [and] the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of precise strikes on this Hezbollah financial strongholds. One of our main targets last night was an underground vault with millions of dollars in cash and gold. The money was being used to finance Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. This vault was deliberately located under a residential building.
Hagari then describes – with impressive graphics – Nasrallah’s bunker, which is underneath El Sahel Hospital in Beirut. Terrorists do have an extraordinary affinity for hospitals, don’t they? They know, and Israel knows, that the best PR for terrorists is when Israel bombs a hospital, and that Israel is reluctant to do so. That’s why Nagari has pointed out the exact location of this place. They don’t want the hospital destroyed, but it seems to be an invitation either for citizens of Lebanon to loot the treasure, or for the supposed government of Lebanon to do something:
I’m calling on the Lebanese government, Lebanese authorities, and international organizations, don’t, don’t allow Hezbollah to use the money for terror and to attack Israel.
The Israeli Air Force is monitoring the compound, as you can see; however, we will not strike the hospital itself. I want to emphasize we are not at war with the people of Lebanon; we are at war with Hezbollah …
Israel’s goal is to make anyone who wars against Israel regret the decision.
Nice to see the IDF maintains a balanced sense of humor along with its self-restraint.
(It’s the unfortunate self-restraint part that fails to convince the Muslims that HaShem means business: https://youtu.be/OsE5B-9uMYk )
Brilliant.
too bad Carolyn doesn’t do the old latma comicroutines, or her newer work, because the humour is very pointed,
of course everything has to held in a very seriously, even that adam sandler comedy would be sober’ don’t mess with the zohan’
in one of Ted Bell’s earlier works Warlord, the terrorist leader of the Taliban, operated from a hospital under islamabad,
To be sure, none of this is funny.
None of this should have happened.
Or should be happening….
But they refuse to stop wanting to destroy the Zionist Entity. And they have been greatly encouraged by the global response to their plans—Israel’s fault, which, when one thinks of it, DOES make a kind of sense: if there were no Israel, it wouldn’t have to be destroyed.
YMMV.
Barry:
If there was no Israel for Hezbollah to attack, you can rest assured they would be attacking someone else. Sunni Muslims, probably, or maybe Europeans or Americans. But you can rest assured they would be at war with someone else. It is all they know. And Iran would likely be funding them.
A-ha-hahahahahah:
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1848826359201861905
well we have to mine a little bit of humour, out of if, the cold fact is that Hezbollah under first Fadlallah, and then Nasrallah and tralla lallah to be named later, has exploited and looted the Shiites first and everyone else next, it has spent the peoples treasure in an evilendeavour, more than a few, nearly all of the Western journalist have approved of it
as they did of the oil for food program later on,, including the late Helen
Thomas,to infer she was a journalist is probably a stretch
On NCIS, they entertained a fiction which probably would not have happened under original show runner
Don Bellisario, but with the moral equivalence sweepstakes, also when Mossad no longer was part of the story arc, the Venezuelans are in town in a press conference, the BND is somehow working with them, and they give up an American reporter working for Hezbollah, there is
some mutterings about the 2002 coup, which was rather a keystone cops affair, instead of a serious enterprise, but that was the motive for one of the guest players,
in truth, all of Hezbollah’s ruling counsels were thick as thieves with the
Venezuelan junta, apparently you can only ladle even a little truth among the fictions in hollywood,
Israel’s goal is to make anyone who wars against Israel regret the decision.
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Kind of the goal of anyone who resists and armed adversary. Israel’s problem is that their adversary has no head for cost-benefit analysis, so you have to be quite thorough.
sdferr
A-ha-hahahahahah:
Indeed.
I wonder if the Door where reporters were denied entrance is the only exit and entrance to the Hezbollah money-bunker. If so, Hezbollah may be in the situation where they cannot take out the money to distribute. Though I doubt it. They have enough guns to take out the money.
miguel cervantes, Hezbollah is embedded in Ciudad del Este (formerly Puerto Stroessner), in the Argentina-Paraguay-Brazil confluence near Iguazu Falls.