The Israeli military announced that it had targeted “strategic weapons” hidden by Hezbollah underground in the Dahieh region, south of Beirut, according to media reports. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed an underground weapons depot of the Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah on the outskirts of Beirut, the army’s press service said.
“Recently, on the order of specific intelligence from the IDF, the army carried out an attack on strategic weapons belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah,” the press service said. “These weapons were stored by Hezbollah in an underground warehouse in the Dahieh area, a key stronghold of Hezbollah terrorists in Beirut,” the military added. Before the attack, numerous measures were taken to reduce the risk of civilian casualties, including early warning of the population in the region, the army said.
Earlier in the day, the IDF ordered the evacuation of a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, warning that it was in an area where the army would operate “in the near future.”
On September 23, Israel launched Operation Northern Arrows against Hezbollah units in Lebanon, during which it carried out massive airstrikes against the movement’s military installations. The stated objective is to create security conditions in the border areas of northern Israel, so that tens of thousands of residents can return there. After one of these attacks, the Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Beirut on September 27. The organization confirmed his death and promised to continue the confrontation with Israel. In the early hours of October 1, the Israeli army announced the start of a ground operation in the border areas of southern Lebanon.
