IDF denies carrying out strike in south Lebanon, blames rocket for deadly blast

The IDF denies carrying out a deadly strike in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh earlier today, instead blaming the blast on a Hezbollah rocket that was launched amid strikes on a nearby facility belonging to the terror group.

Lebanon’s health ministry reported one dead and 11 wounded in a blast that struck an apartment in the city, after the military announced strikes on an underground Hezbollah site near Beaufort Castle.

“The IDF did not target any civilian building,” says the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.

“According to the information we have, the building was hit by a rocket projectile that was stored at the site, and was launched and exploded as a result of the airstrike,” he says.

“The Hezbollah terror organization continues to store its rocket projectiles near residential buildings and the residents of Lebanon, thereby endangering them. Hezbollah continues to endanger the residents of southern Lebanon in light of its refusal to hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state,” Adraee says.

He adds, “The Lebanese government bears responsibility for what is happening on its territory, in light of its failure to confiscate Hezbollah’s heavy weapons and rocket projectiles.”

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