In a warning to Lebanese civilians, Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, says the military will soon be striking numerous branches of the Al-Qard al-Hasan association, known to be used by Hezbollah as a quasi-bank.
“Iranian funding and Hezbollah’s independent sources of income are deposited at the association’s branches, and it is used in practice to manage and store the terror assets of the organization,” Adraee says.
The spokesman says the strikes “will be another blow to the Iranian financing chain of Hezbollah, which uses an association under a civilian guise to finance assets for the storage of weapons, the establishment of launch sites, the payment of wages to its terrorists and the build-up of its criminal terrorist organization, on the backs of the people of Lebanon.”
The IDF says it will issue evacuation warnings to civilians near the sites in the coming hours.
The first warnings are published by Adraee now, for two buildings in Tyre and Sidon.
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