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.
