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Air Force pounds Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold after civilians told to evacuate area

The Times of Israel reports: “More than a dozen Israeli airstrikes were said to hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday night and in the early hours of Tuesday morning after the Israel Defense Forces accused Hezbollah of storing hundreds of millions of dollars in a bunker underneath one of Lebanon’s largest hospitals.

The strikes were launched after the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee instructed residents of several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate the area, warning that they were ‘located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah.’

The military said earlier on Monday that it would continue striking Hezbollah targets with a focus on their financial infrastructure.

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Israel estimated there to be roughly ‘half a billion dollars in dollar bills and gold’ in a bunker underneath the Al-Sahel Hospital in the southern Beirut suburb known as Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah is largely based.

He warned that the Israeli Air Force was monitoring the compound, but stressed that Israel would not launch a strike on the hospital itself, as it is at war with Hezbollah, and not with the Lebanese people…”

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