IDF says Hezbollah attempting to rebuild Beirut arms production site in violation of ceasefire

The IDF says Hezbollah 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.

In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee, says the weapons site, located under residential buildings and next to a school, was bombed by Israel in November 2024.

Adraee says 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.

“However, 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 says.

He says the Hezbollah activity at the site is a “blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon under the ceasefire agreement.”

#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… pic.twitter.com/kdv9PoDog0

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) April 9, 2025