The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that the Hezbollah terror group is attempting to rebuild a weapons manufacturing site in Beirut’s southern suburbs and trying to conceal its activity from a US-led mechanism monitoring the ceasefire, of which this would be a violation.
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, said the weapons site, located under residential buildings and next to a school, was bombed by Israel in November 2024.
Adraee said that after the IDF sent the truce mechanism information on Hezbollah’s attempts to rebuild the site in early January, a surprise inspection was carried out.
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aerial photographs show that Hezbollah, which had been informed in advance of the date of the inspection, had evacuated the engineering equipment that had been operating at the site on the day the inspection was conducted, and then returned it after it had ended," he said.
He added that the Hezbollah activity at the site is a "blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Leb
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The area south of Beirut, known as Dahiyeh, in which the alleged manufacturing facility is located, has long been a Hezbollah stronghold. The IDF frequently hit targets there during the recent war, including in the massive strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in September 2024.
Adraee’s post about the facility came amid calls to disarm the group, whose overland and air conduits for weapons were largely shut down due to Israeli attacks, the fall of Bashir
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in Syria and crackdowns on smuggling by the Lebanese government.
According to a Tuesday report in the Saudi al-Hadath news outlet, citing a Western official, the Iran-backed terror group has shifted to using a sea-based route for smuggling, beginning to reassert control over Beirut’s seaport for that purpose.
A US envoy in Lebanon last weekend repeated Washington’s position that Hezbollah and other gangs should be disarmed as soon as possible, and that the Lebanese army is expected to do the job.
A Rooters report on Tuesday, citing Lebanese political officials, said that US-backed President Joseph Aoun intends to open talks with Hezbollah over its arsenal soon.
The report also quoted an unnamed senior Hezbollah official, who said the group was ready to discuss its arms in the context of a national defense strategy, but that this hinged on Israel pulling out its troops from the five hilltops in southern Lebanon where the IDF maintains a presence.
Ihab Hamadeh, a Lebanese MP for Hezbollah, rejected that report on Wednesday, telling Qatar
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#عاجل هكذا يحاول حزب الله اعمار موقع إنتاج في الضاحية الجنوبية ويُخفي نشاطه عن آلية الرقابة ويكذب على اللبنانيين: خلال تفتيش مفاجئ اختفت الآليات الهندسية، وعادت إلى العمل بعد انتهائه خلافًا لاتفاق وقف إطلاق النار
🔸يكشف جيش الدفاع أن حزب الله يحاول خلال الأشهر الأخيرة إعادة اعمار موقع تحت الأرض لإنتاج وسائل قتالية في قلب حي الشويفات في الضاحية الجنوبية، والذي تم انشائه قرب مدرسة وتحت مبانٍ سكنية، وذلك بعد أن تم استهدافه في شهر نوفمبر 2024.
🔸وقد تم نقل المعلومات عن هذه المحاولات في مطلع شهر يناير إلى آلية الرقابة، وبناءً عليه تقرر إجراء تفتيش مفاجئ في الموقع لكن الصور الجوية أظهرت أن حزب الله، الذي علم مسبقًا بموعد التفتيش، قام بإخلاء الآليات الهندسية التي كانت تعمل في الموقع في اليوم الذي أُجري فيه التفتيش، ثم أعادها بعد انتهائه.
🔸 هذا النشاط الخطير يعتبر خرقًا سافرًا للتفاهمات بين إسرائيل ولبنان ضمن اتفاق وقف إطلاق النار.
🔸يبقى جيش الدفاع ملتزمًا باستمرار تنفيذ التفاهمات بين إسرائيل ولبنان، وسيواصل العمل من أجل إزالة أي تهديد عن دولة إسرائيل ومنع أي محاولة تموضع من قبل حزب الله الإرهابي.
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#عاجل This is how Hezbollah is trying to rebuild a production site in the southern suburb, concealing its activity from the oversight mechanism and lying to the Lebanese: During a surprise inspection, the engineering equipment disappeared and returned to work after it was completed, contrary to the ceasefire agreement.
🔸 The IDF reveals that in recent months, Hezbollah has been trying to rebuild an underground weapons production site in the heart of the Choueifat neighborhood in the southern suburb, which was established near a school and under residential buildings, after it was targeted in November 2024.
🔸 Information about these attempts was transferred to the monitoring mechanism in early January, and accordingly it was decided to conduct a surprise inspection of the site. However, aerial photographs showed that Hezbollah, which had been informed in advance of the date of the inspection, had evacuated the engineering equipment that had been operating at the site on the day the inspection was conducted, and then returned it after it had ended.
🔸 This dangerous activity constitutes a flagrant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon under the ceasefire agreement.
🔸 The IDF remains committed to the continued implementation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and prevent any attempt to establish itself by the terrorist Hezbollah.
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