Hezbollah cash vault hit, Israeli army says as it seeks to degrade movement’s funding
The Israeli army said on Monday its forces were pummelling Hezbollah’s financial arm, hitting more than two dozen targets including a bunker with tens of millions of dollars in cash and gold.
Also on Monday, rescuers affiliated to Hezbollah said at least three people owere killed in Israeli strikes on a densely packed district of the movement’s south Beirut bastion.
“Three people were martyred and a large number of others were injured,” in the first Israeli strikes on the Ouzai district in south Beirut, the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee told Agence France-Presse.
The strikes since Sunday night mark an expansion of Israel’s campaign against the Iran-backed group after a year of cross-border exchanges that escalated in late September into a full-blown war.
Israeli forces are now seeking to degrade the Shiite Muslim movement’s ability to fund its operations
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“The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of precise strikes on these Hezbollah financial strongholds,” military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a televised briefing.