Hezbollah Converts Lebanese Homes Into Secret Weapons Warehouses: Israel

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is estimating that Hezbollah has converted hundreds of homes in southern Lebanon into secret warehouses for storing rockets, the Jerusalem Post reports.

The IDF's estimation came in the wake of an explosion in the area on Tuesday morning which is believed to have been a cache exploding in a house.

The Post reports that UNIFIL, the UN peace keeping forces in Lebanon, said such storage of munitions is a "serious violation" of the UN resolution that ended the 2006 Lebanese conflict.

Israeli officials also criticized the stashed weapons, telling the Jerusalem Post that it is evidence of Israel's "longstanding claim that Hezbollah uses civilian infrastructure to hide its weaponry."

UNIFIL and the Lebanese army are conducting investigations into Tuesday's bombing, Reuters reports.

Reuters writes that Hezbollah had no comment on Tuesday's explosion.

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Comments

[azbird]

I have tried three times to post on this article, if you notice all the responses are anti-Israel. Do you think that is honest? All pro-Israel comments are being censored. I will try one more time. I believe that storing weaponry in homes is very dangerous for the population. Hezbollah does not care. The more innocent civilians killed the better they like It. That is how they get their PR propaganda. It is also amazing to me that most of posters immediately leaped to defence of Lebanon and the terrorist Hezbollah.

[Progressneeded]

Planning a new attack? How better to provide justification?

[amalfedup]

I guess they are setting the scene for a new incursion!

[MemoryAlpha]

Query:
Does Israel have documents showing Hezbollah is hiding Nigerian yellow cake and mobile weapons labs among the population it intends to bomb, too?

[george389]

no. but it does have documents that Hezbullah hides weapons in civilian houses which is the point of this article

[MemoryAlpha]

Query:
And do you suppose the Mossad did a better job on these new document forgeries?

[kentah]

Sounds like a not-so-well manufactured reason to invade Lebanon. I wonder how long they've been working on this one since Cast Lead took a mere 6 months.

[phute]

They are still smarting - it's not in their bullying psyche to accept they were so outplayed - they must have sent themselves crazy before coming up with this insult to the collective inteligence.

[CigarGod]

Roger that.
Has worked before.

[S1m0n]

A UN resolution might have marked the end of the 2006 war, but it had no role in ending it.

[CigarGod]

Typical.
IDFis preparing the public to accept wholesalebombingof residential areas.

[mulegino]

Shocking, isn't it? Storing weapons to defend one's own homeland against a nation that has invaded it twice in less than thirty years. God, what will these dastardly Lebanese think of next? Fighting back again?

[misaacm]

That's what the Lebanese army is for.

[davidwayneosedach]

Of course they're going to hide their weapons. What's the alternative? Leaving them out on a bombing range?

[george389]

storing them in military compounds and not keeping them in civilian homes which is completely against the geneva conventions and the UN resolution ending the last conflict

[WorkingClass]

This is outrageous. Lebanon should centralize all of it's arms in the middle of an open field and provide Israel with the coordinates.

[george389]

following the geneva conventions would be a nice start