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Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, though it said it would not strike the complex.

The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.

Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital and said it had previously been used to hide the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.

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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 117 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Remember when they bothered to pretend that Hamas was blowing up their own hospitals because it would obviously be a war crime to target hospitals? I remember that.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

They also claimed Hamas was beheading babies. Still waiting on that evidence.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Joe Biden confirmed it by repeating it over and over again. Why would I need more evidence than that?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In fairness, IIRC that was an American media lie to onboard the public. All I've heard from Israel about it was along the lines of "We don't know about it, we don't doubt it could have happened and we won't investigate."

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

It came from IDF propagandists that gave statements to reporters who then repeated it without question. It was repeated and amplified by the White House and eventually Genocide Joe.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

It was an american president lie too.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Remember when Israel claimed that there was a multi-story Hamas command center under the Al-Shifa hospital, even sharing an animated rendering of it, and Biden said he believed it “no question in my mind?” The Israelis destroyed the hospital and found nothing but bragged that they found proof in the form of a gun in one of the rooms.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They did also find a calendar in Arabic, which was pretty harrowing. I hope the IDF soldiers involved got intensive therapy for the trauma.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Wait until they find Disney VHS tapes that were officially dubbed in Arabic and insist that it was all codewords for building a nuclear device...

[–] mitexleo@buddyverse.one 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oh the calendar? Man that must have been embarrassing.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 27 points 9 months ago

Remember how that false narrative was believed by virtually every mainstream liberal and the only countervailing voices were the usual (left / local) sources that continue to be dismissed by mainstream liberals?

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 46 points 9 months ago

Another Al Shifa. Magazines next to MRI machine. Terrorists calendar.
We know all the tricks.

I'm scary. What will happen after the US elections?
Full invasion? Next Gaza?

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'd be nervous if I was a worker or patient in that hospital right now...

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There is a word for it when it was deliberate done by someone to instill this... What was it again...

Oh yeah.

Terrorism!

[–] jonne 24 points 9 months ago

That's why they evacuated it, they know Israel would bomb it. They've targeted hospitals and abundances in Lebanon before (and Gaza as well, of course).

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What a strange thing to announce. Everything Israel says is a lie, but even still, so what if Hezbollah does store it there? I don’t understand why anyone is supposed to care how or where Hezbollah might store cash & gold on their own lands.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

Israelis don't believe it is their land. That's the rub

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago

The goal is not really to kill civilians or even to harm Hezbollah. The goal is to destroy vital services to further destabilize the country.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 32 points 9 months ago

I legit had to check whether this was The Onion. This is such an absurd thing to announce it seems like a parody of their actions.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 9 months ago

Israel is known for lying about hospitals.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Airstrikes began about an hour later, with strong explosions heard across the Beirut area. One of the strikes hit just in front of the entrance of the Rafik Hariri university hospital, the largest public hospital in Lebanon. At least four people including a child were killed and 24 injured in the strike, and the hospital suffered “major damage” from the blast.

The initial casualty count was expected to rise as first responders continued digging through the rubble for people. A picture of the building struck in front of Rafik Hairi hospital showed a man covered in blood lying lifeless in a bombed-out building.

Israel won't stop targeting hospitals

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

What's next, schools? Oh, wait. Well, surely not public infra—nevermind. At least kids are safe? No? All right then.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is this what the 1930s were like?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

More or less, minus the CGI.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of Gliwice provocation, also with the level of idiocy and/or nazism required to believe it.

[–] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is crypto hurting you right now?

[–] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Does CGI do it to you too?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Yes. Except now it is even more incredible since how the FUCK are they getting away with it! Back then fact checking was much harder and it was much easier to bullshit. Now we have access to unprecedented information and fact checkers and still the same old fucktard tactics work.

There isn't even a cool off period with this. There was a time not too long ago where they would spout some bullshit that would later turn out to be obvious bullshit... and they would wait several years for people to forget before doing it again. But over here they just turned the entire thing into a ritual where they expect us to fall in line and believe it even they know we know it is shit.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

This is Israel's setup for bombing a damn hospital. Not that they've ever cared about needing an excuse, before.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't there that Gazan hospital that they occupied and destroyed and claimed it was legitimate target, because they found box cutters and binoculars? Tools that were totally used by Hamas soldiers hiding under the Hospital..

[–] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know how the saying goes

"you run into a jerk, that jerk is likely the jerk. Run into many jerks, and you might just be the jerk"

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

I always heard it as:
If everyone you meet is an asshole, you're probably the asshole...

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

An animated graphic as evidence to strike a hospital... Where have I heard that before... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pTYHBZVgVQ

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: Shifa hospital had tunnels under it because Israel built them when they occupied Gaza.

[–] HorseRabbit@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe Hamas had a red barrel room.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean isn't that where and how explosives are stored? Especially the ones that just blow on impact? Even if military explosives are specifically formulated NOT to explode from small arms fire?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

Eat shit, Netenyahu.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I saw this episode of Geraldo.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Al Capone's vault?

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago
[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Who do you think put it there? 🤔