From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Lebanese hospital opens doors to journalists, aiming to disprove IDF claim that it’s housing Hezbollah cash bunker
The Lebanese Sahel Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs opens its doors to journalists for an unrestricted tour after the IDF claimed that a Hezbollah cash bunker is located beneath it.
The IDF had ordered that the hospital be evacuated last night along with other sites across Beirut that wound up being struck during a series of air raids.
Journalists who tour Sahel say they see no evidence of a Hezbollah cash bunker.
Today I visited the Sahel hospital in southern Beirut the morning after Israel claimed – without evidence – that hundreds of billions of dollars in gold and cash were stored in the basement and used to fund Hezbollah.
I had unrestricted access to all areas, including the… pic.twitter.com/pzYa0W4R0F
— Steve Sweeney (@SweeneySteve) October 22, 2024
But the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson issues a tweet addressed to those touring Sahel hospital, offering specific directions for where the bunker is located, “according to the information available to us.”
“We would like to emphasize that the entrance may be hidden using various means that may make it difficult to find,” the spokesperson adds.
To all the journalists in Beirut, including those who participated in the press tour in the Al-Sahel Hospital, these are the entry instructions to Nasrallah’s bunker we exposed yesterday:
According to intelligence information, one of the entrances to the bunker, containing more…
— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) October 22, 2024
