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IDF says jets hit Hezbollah arms factories in overnight Beirut strikes
Flames and smoke rises from buildings hit by Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburb of Beirut, October 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
The Israel Defense Forces says it hit several Hezbollah weapons production facilities in overnight strikes on the group’s south Beirut stronghold of Dahiyeh.
“Air Force fighter jets conducted accurate intelligence-based strikes overnight on several weapons storage and manufacturing facilities belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area of Dahiyeh in Beirut,” the military says in a statement.
The IDF notes that all the weapons factories “were situated under and inside civilian buildings in the heart of a civilian neighborhood,” calling it another example of Hezbollah’s “cynical exploitation [of] Lebanon civilians and of civilian facilities as a human shield.”
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