IDF publishes video of strike on Hezbollah arms depot, where ‘chemical substances’ stored, in civilian neighborhood

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The IDF releases footage of a recent airstrike against what it says is a Hezbollah weapons depot “in the heart of a civilian neighborhood deep in Lebanon.”

The large and lengthy secondary explosions seen in the video are “further proof of Hezbollah’s modus operandi, in which it stores explosives and dangerous chemical substances in civilian villages,” the IDF says in a statement.

The IDF says that Hezbollah “places its [weapons] production infrastructure in the heart of civilian populations in southern Lebanon, in the Beqaa [Valley] and in Beirut, and uses the Lebanese people as a human shield.”

Since the beginning of the ongoing skirmishes on the Lebanon border, amid the war in Gaza, the IDF says it has been working against Hezbollah’s force build-up, striking weapon deliveries to the terror group and its infrastructure used to manufacture weapons.

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