The Armed Forces of Israel They reported this Monday that Hezbollah guard 500 million dollars (about 462 million euros) in gold bars in a bunker deliberately located under Beirut’s Sahel Hospital (Lebanon). In addition, they claim that it was property of the deceased leader of the armed group, Hassan Nasrallah.
“Today I am going to declassify intelligence information about a place we have not attacked and in which Hezbollah has millions of dollars in gold and cash,” said Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari in an appearance on social media.
Hagari has shown a diagram depicting the hospital and underground facilities that include heated rooms, dormitories and infrastructure “to stay for long periods of time.” “According to the estimates we have, there are at least 500 million dollars stored in this bunker, in bundles of dollars and gold,” he indicated.
The military spokesman argued that “this money could have gone to rebuild the State of Lebanon”, but “it was exclusively for the use of the terrorist organization.” “We are not going to bomb the hospital,” Hagari has promised, while revealing that the entrances to the bunker are inside the Ahmadi building and the Sahel Centro building of the complex.
“The reconnaissance devices of the Air Force are monitoring the bunker (…). We urge the citizens of Lebanon, the Government and institutions of Lebanon and international organizations not to allow Hezbollah to obtain terrorist funds from under the hospital“he appealed.
The hospital denies the accusations
The director of the Sahel Hospital, Fadi Alamé, has rejected the Israeli accusations and has announced a “forced” evacuation of the health center. “Israeli accusations about Sahel Hospital are false, but we are forced to evacuate“, he stated in statements to the Al Yadid TV network.
Furthermore, Alame has urged the Lebanese Armed Forces to search the hospital to ensure that there is no tunnel under the building. “The Sahel Hospital has no relationship with the parties,” he defended.
On Sunday, Israel announced an offensive against the headquarters of Al Qard Al Hasan in Lebanon. Only in the south of Beirut were bombings on eleven targets. There have also been attacks on the Bekaa Valley, also considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
The Al Qard al Hasan Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1983, according to Al Manar television, related to Hezbollah. It offers interest-free loans following Islamic financial precepts in the microcredit format.
At the end of September, the Israeli Army unleashed a new invasion of Lebanon after days of intense bombings and attacks against the country, including the coordinated explosion of thousands of communication devices, after more than eleven months of fighting with Hezbollah.
The resurgence of hostilities is framed in the confrontations for nearly a year, after Hezbollah attacked Israeli territory a day after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions.
