IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says Israel has located a Hezbollah bunker under a Beirut hospital where the terror group is storing more than $500 million in gold and cash.
He releases the details after a night of attacks in which Israel targeted Hezbollah’s financial institutions.
In a press conference, Hagari shows one of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s bunkers located under the Sahel hospital in Beirut.
“The bunker was deliberately placed under a hospital, and it holds more than half a billion dollars in cash and gold,” Hagari says.
“That money could have been used to rehabilitate Lebanon, but it went to rehabilitate Hezbollah,” he says.
“The [Israeli] Air Force aircraft are watching the site and will continue to track it,” he says.
During the press conference, Hagari details how Iran transfers money to Hezbollah and other ways the terror group finances its operations and vows that Israel will continue to strike its financial operations.
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