Hezbollah hiding more than $500M in gold, cash under hospital in Lebanon, IDF says

Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror proxy, is hiding $500 cardinal successful golden and currency successful a concealed bunker formerly tally by the group's deceased person nether a infirmary successful Beruit, Israeli subject officials said Monday. 

Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson, said the Israeli Air Force was monitoring the vault "deliberately" located beneath the al-Sahel hospital, but determination were nary plans to people the structure. 

Israel has targeted the panic radical successful caller weeks aft a twelvemonth of Hezbollah strikes launched toward Israel's north, forcing galore successful the country to flee.

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The Israeli subject said Hezbollah has a bunker hidden nether the al Sahel infirmary successful Beirut filled with much than $500 cardinal successful currency and gold. (Israel Defense Forces)

"The bunker was deliberately placed nether a hospital, and it holds much than fractional a cardinal dollars successful currency and gold," Hagari said. "That wealth could person been utilized to rehabilitate Lebanon, but it went to rehabilitate Hezbollah."

The bunker is connected to the infirmary and is filled with beds and rooms utilized for agelong stays and abstraction for directing operations, the IDF said. The IDF besides said the tract belonged to Hassan Nasrallah, the panic group's slain person who was killed during an Israeli airstrike successful September.

Hagari appealed to Lebanese officials to rein successful Hezbollah and inspect the site.

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A 3-D presumption released by the IDF shows wherever hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to Hezbollah are being stored successful an underground bunker. (Israel Defense Forces)

"I’m calling connected the Lebanese government, Lebanese authorities and the planetary organizations: Don’t let Hezbollah to usage the wealth for panic and to onslaught Israel," helium said.

Fadi Alameh, the manager of the hospital, reportedly said the installation was being evacuated. 

"You are located adjacent facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, which the Israeli service volition people successful the adjacent future," helium reportedly wrote connected X. 

The IDF has accused Hezbollah, arsenic good arsenic Hamas, of hiding weapons and lodging its violent fighters successful hospitals, schools and different delicate locations. 

Hagari besides elaborate however Iran transfers wealth to Hezbollah and different ways the terror group finances its operations. Hezbollah's fiscal arm, Al-Qard Al-Hasan, provides fiscal services to Lebanese civilians and pays the salaries of Hezbollah's operatives, helium said.

A rendering of al Sahel infirmary successful Beirut and the underground bunker Israel claims is hiding currency and golden for Hezbollah. (Israel Defense Forces)

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Iran's Quds Force transfers wealth to Hezbollah from Iranian lipid sold successful Syria, and the Islamic Republic besides sends suitcases of currency and golden by level to the Iranian Embassy successful Beirut, which distributes it straight to Hezbollah, the IDF said.